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Ensure that makewhatis is built during bootstrap-tools stage
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Authored by arichardson on Aug 17 2018, 8:35 AM.
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Summary

We currently set MK_MAN=no in $BSARGS so MK_MAN_UTILS will also be false
and we always fall back to using makewhatis from $PATH.
I found this because I am currently trying to build without inheriting the
current users $PATH.

Test Plan

makewhatis now exists in $WORLDTMP and installcheck no longer complains if I build without inheriting $PATH

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rS FreeBSD src repository - subversion
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