Subject: bug#68583: 29.1; Can't find the cat manpage

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:32:26 +0200

> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 12:46:57 +0000
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Christopher Yeleighton <[email-masked]>
> 
> If the code in man.el tried to find the manual page by itself, it would 
> not fail because the manual page is there. It succeeds if MANOPT is not 
> set and my MANOPT should not affect the manual page search algorithm.

That depends on how we try to find the manual page(s).  The
implementation calls 'man' in a special way, which evidently fails
under the value of MANOPT you set.