In man(1) mode, change to the right directory before starting the parser,

just like traditional man(1) does, such that .so links have a chance to
work.  After this point, we don't need the current directory for anything
else before exit, so we don't need to worry about getting back and we can
safely ignore failure.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index a628cd86..4c71266f 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -284,7 +284,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		mansearch_setup(1);
 		if( ! mansearch(&search, &paths, argc, argv, &res, &sz))
 			usage(search.argmode);
-		manpath_free(&paths);
 		resp = res;
 
 		if (sz == 0) {
@@ -367,9 +366,11 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	while (argc) {
 #if HAVE_SQLITE3
 		if (resp != NULL) {
-			if (resp->form)
+			if (resp->form) {
+				/* For .so only; ignore failure. */
+				chdir(paths.paths[resp->ipath]);
 				parse(&curp, -1, resp->file, &rc);
-			else
+			} else
 				rc = passthrough(resp->file);
 			resp++;
 		} else
@@ -388,6 +389,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 #if HAVE_SQLITE3
 out:
 	if (search.argmode != ARG_FILE) {
+		manpath_free(&paths);
 		mansearch_free(res, sz);
 		mansearch_setup(0);
 	}