Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/10/10:55:32
Robin Bowes schrieb:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 06:19:07PM -0700, Lex Ein wrote:
>>> "Cygwin Setup - Finish
>>>
>>> Create icons Have setup create icons for easy access to the Cygwin
>>> environment. [ ] Create icon on _Desktop [ ] Add icon to _Start
>>> Menu
>>> Optional tasks - (may take many minutes!)
>>> [ ] Build database (makewhatis) of man page short descriptions for
>>> 'whatis' & 'apropos'.
>>> [ ] Build database (updatedb) of file names for 'locate'.
>>>
>>> Display README information at exit. [ ] Display
>>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ directory of README files.
>>
>> I think that's a very good idea. It would need to be conditional on the
>> existence of man and, I guess, find, though.
>
> In the context of some of the earlier posts in this thread, can I
> suggest that the wording is a little less daunting to those not familiar
> with nuix/cygwin. OK, so "Build database (makewhatis) of man page short
> descriptions for 'whatis' & 'apropos'" may be technically correct, but
> wouldn't something like this be more "helpful":
>
> Optional tasks - (may take many minutes!)
> [ ] Build help index (used by 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands)
> [ ] Build file index (used by 'locate' command)
[ ] Update help index (used by 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands)
[ ] Update file index (used by 'locate' command)
But all this would a non-issue if we would create these new commands or
functionality. Then no setup changes would be needed.
* updatewhatis which gets the filelist of the new man files.
* updatedb which should accept a new argument for the package MANIFEST
to be merged into. Easier just a removal <MANIFEST> and add <MANIFEST>
option.
On unix it's a non-issue because they have faster forks and esp.
faster filesystems.
$ time makewhatis
real 16m6.209s
user 7m56.942s
sys 2m38.845s
$ time updatedb
/usr/bin/find: /.ssh: Permission denied
/usr/bin/find: Fehler in /etc/mtab: /a.: No such file or directory
real 2m22.452s
user 0m0.674s
sys 0m0.636s
BTW, a nice locate bug eh. algorithmic issue (problematic trigram):
$ locate xx
/bin/cygdb_cxx-3.1.dll
/bin/cygdb_cxx-4.1.dll
/bin/cygdb_cxx-4.2.dll
/bin/cyggmpxx-3.dll
/bin/xxd.exe
$ which /bin/xxd.exe
/bin/xxd.exe: Command not found.
$ ls /bin/??x.exe
/bin/osx.exe /bin/ptx.exe /bin/rdx.exe /bin/tex.exe /bin/upx.exe
But I'm just too busy right now for this. I have to bring out a new
release and search for another libtool bug.
Besides the pet cygwin projects.
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Reini Urban
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