3 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man/man/man-1.6e-whatis2.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/man/man/man-1.6e-whatis2.patch
index 7f013836c0..fc4ed3135d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man/man/man-1.6e-whatis2.patch
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man/man/man-1.6e-whatis2.patch
@@ -50,3 +50,10 @@ Index: man-1.6f/src/makewhatis.sh
         here=`pwd`
         cd $mandir
         for i in $sections
+@@ -447,7 +447,6 @@
+
+        chmod 644 ${mandir1}/whatis
+        rm $TMPFILE
+-     fi
+    done
+ done
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man/man/man-1.6g-whatis3.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/man/man/man-1.6g-whatis3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6334456857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man/man/man-1.6g-whatis3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Do not use absolute path for awk while getting the path of awk
+when running makewhatis.
+This can avoid errors if path of awk changes.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [man-1.6g]
+
+Signed-off-by: Jian Liu <jian.liu@windriver.com>
+
+diff -Nur man-1.6g.orig/src/makewhatis.sh man-1.6g/src/makewhatis.sh
+--- man-1.6g.orig/src/makewhatis.sh	2015-02-25 16:13:12.657611419 +0800
++++ man-1.6g/src/makewhatis.sh	2015-02-25 16:14:49.334694815 +0800
+@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
+ # but that leads to problems and bugs.
+
+ # AWK=/usr/bin/gawk
+-AWK=@awk@
++AWK=`which awk`
+
+ # Find a place for our temporary files. If security is not a concern, use
+ #	TMPFILE=/tmp/whatis$$; TMPFILEDIR=none
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man/man_1.6g.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/man/man_1.6g.bb
index cd9edbed89..d4a4b26fc5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man/man_1.6g.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man/man_1.6g.bb
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ SRC_URI = "http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/man2html/${BP}.tar.gz/ba
            file://man.1.gz;unpack=false \
            file://man.7.gz;unpack=false \
            file://man.conf \
-           file://manpath.5.gz;unpack=false"
+           file://manpath.5.gz;unpack=false \
+           file://man-1.6g-whatis3.patch \
+"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "ba154d5796928b841c9c69f0ae376660"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ccdcb8c3f4e0080923d7e818f0e4a202db26c46415eaef361387c20995b8959f"