Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/26/02:15:59
Paul,
this probably happened when you upgraded from cygwin-1.3.10-1 to
a newer version, there lib.info is missing. The workaround is to
download 1.3.10-1 and extract the files manually.
What happened on your box is quite simple. Setup deleted all files
from 10-1, and then extracted all from the newer version.
HTH
Ciao
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Derbyshire [SMTP:derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net]
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 4:54 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Missing libc documentation
>
> I'm not sure how, but the libc documentation in my system is missing.
> It was there this morning, and the only thing I've done since then
> that might affect documentation was to use cygwin setup, but I used
> it to upgrade some packages and install new documentation, not
> uninstall anything, so nothing should have *dis*appeared. Also,
> nobody else has had physical access to the box all day. So, can
> anyone explain how this could have happened?
>
> It gets worse. Reinstalling the "texinfo" package, all 600K of it,
> did not bring back my "info libc". I suppose I have to reinstall some
> other package to restore the libc documentation. Could someone please
> tell me which one? And please let it not be the multi-megabyte gcc
> package. Please.
>
> Finally, if anyone has any idea how the documentation got destroyed,
> I'd appreciate any information you can give about how to prevent this
> from happening again. (Especially if it does mean reinstalling the
> mutli-megabyte gcc package.) Is it typical for cygwin to go eating
> files at random? Should I be backing up my home directory outside of
> the cygwin directory? (If it decides to disappear, weeks of work will
> be lost.)
>
> It's particularly strange that this would happen to a system that's
> completely up to date -- a serious bug that causes files to vanish
> and/or messes up documentation browsing is the sort I'd expect to
> occur only with outdated buggy old stuff sitting around.
>
> In the meantime I suppose I can use DJGPP's libc documentation and
> hope the stdio functions are basically the same. (Should be; they are
> a standardized part of ANSI C.)
>
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