id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,blockedby,blocking,branch_state,votes 3509,man invocation not portable,petere,andrew_b,"The invocation of man in misc/ext.d/text.sh.in is not portable. BSD man commands do not take the -l option to show a man page by file name. (Instead, just give the file name, no option necessary.) As a result, viewing man pages with mc does not work on these platforms. Distributions are working around that: * https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/42176 * https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/misc/mc/files/patch-misc__ext.d__text.sh.in?view=markup&pathrev=382039 man ",defect,closed,major,4.8.16,mc-core,master,fixed,,,,,merged,committed-master