Do not print the 'man: No such file or directory' error if
  'man -d' was called and the NLS catalogue was not found, as
  it confuses people, and be more informative.  More info at:

    http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=
   
   
  Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> (26 Dec 2002).

--- man-1.5k/catopen/catopen.c.orig	2002-12-26 08:25:07.000000000 +0200
+++ man-1.5k/catopen/catopen.c	2002-12-26 10:25:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -10,7 +10,11 @@
 extern char *my_malloc(int);	/* in util.c */
 
 #ifndef DEFAULT_NLSPATH
-#define DEFAULT_NLSPATH "/usr/lib/locale/%N/%L"
+# if __GLIBC__ >= 2
+#  define DEFAULT_NLSPATH "/usr/share/locale/%L/%N"
+# else
+#  define DEFAULT_NLSPATH "/usr/lib/locale/%N/%L"
+# endif
 #endif
 
 static nl_catd my_catopenpath(char *name, char *path);
--- man-1.5k/src/gripes.c.orig	2002-12-26 08:13:53.000000000 +0200
+++ man-1.5k/src/gripes.c	2002-12-26 10:29:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -47,14 +47,25 @@
 	    if (!lg)
 		    lg = getenv("LC_ALL");
 	    if ((s || lg) && (!lg || strncmp(lg, "en", 2))) {
-		perror(mantexts);
+               /* This prints 'man: No such file or directory' which
+                * confuses people.  The fprintf message should really
+                * be enouth ...
+                */
+/*             perror(mantexts); */
+
 		fprintf(stderr,
-"Failed to open the message catalog %s on the path NLSPATH=%s\n\n",
-			mantexts, s ? s : "<none>");
+"Failed to open the message catalog \"%s\" for locale \"%s\"\n\
+(NLSPATH=\"%s\")\n\n",
+                       mantexts, lg ? lg : "<none>",
+                       s ? s : DEFAULT_NLSPATH);
 	    } else if (debug) {
-		perror(mantexts);
+               /* This prints 'man: No such file or directory' which
+                * confuses people.  The fprintf message should really
+                * be enouth ...
+                */
+/*             perror(mantexts); */
 		fprintf(stderr,
-"Looked whether there exists a message catalog %s, but there is none\n"
+"Looked whether there exists a message catalog \"%s\", but there is none\n\n"
 "(and for English messages none is needed)\n\n",
 			mantexts);
             }