Bem, isso é porque ele pesquisa no ... uh ... hmmm. Parece que alguém fez alterações no código-fonte, mas esqueceu de atualizar a documentação. Aqui está a lista completa de pastas pesquisadas, diretamente do código-fonte:
static const char *bindirs[] = {
"/usr/bin",
"/usr/sbin",
"/usr/lib",
"/usr/lib64",
"/bin",
"/sbin",
"/etc",
"/usr/etc",
"/lib",
"/lib64",
"/usr/games",
"/usr/games/bin",
"/usr/games/lib",
"/usr/emacs/etc",
"/usr/lib/emacs/*/etc",
"/usr/TeX/bin",
"/usr/tex/bin",
"/usr/interviews/bin/LINUX",
"/usr/X11R6/bin",
"/usr/X386/bin",
"/usr/bin/X11",
"/usr/X11/bin",
"/usr/X11R5/bin",
"/usr/local/bin",
"/usr/local/sbin",
"/usr/local/etc",
"/usr/local/lib",
"/usr/local/games",
"/usr/local/games/bin",
"/usr/local/emacs/etc",
"/usr/local/TeX/bin",
"/usr/local/tex/bin",
"/usr/local/bin/X11",
"/usr/contrib",
"/usr/hosts",
"/usr/include",
"/usr/g++-include",
"/usr/ucb",
"/usr/old",
"/usr/new",
"/usr/local",
"/usr/libexec",
"/usr/share",
"/opt/*/bin",
NULL
};
static const char *mandirs[] = {
"/usr/man/*",
"/usr/share/man/*",
"/usr/X386/man/*",
"/usr/X11/man/*",
"/usr/TeX/man/*",
"/usr/interviews/man/mann",
NULL
};
static const char *srcdirs[] = {
"/usr/src/*",
"/usr/src/lib/libc/*",
"/usr/src/lib/libc/net/*",
"/usr/src/ucb/pascal",
"/usr/src/ucb/pascal/utilities",
"/usr/src/undoc",
NULL
};