What about the MANPATH env var? Is that considered as well?

Either way, `brew install spiped` fails on OSX if $MAN1DIR is set because brew works without sudo and all the directories in /usr/share/man are only writeable by root. Obviously not your problem, but just putting it out there. Is MAN1DIR a FreeBSD env var or is it used by other distros?

I was bummed out that spiped was not in Red Hat's yum package registry. I wonder if it's in the other distro registries.