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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:58:16 -0400
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Subject:	Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port
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Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to
> 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man.
>
> I think that Cygwin should also switch to man-db. man-db is much better
> in handling man pages in different encoding.
>
> Before man-db, libpipeline (http://libpipeline.nongnu.org/) needs to be
> ported, because man-db uses it.
>
> I have tried to port man-db to Cygwin, but I did not succeed. I got
> stuck in libpipeline. Did anyone else succeed?
>
> regards,
>
> Erwin
>

I downloaded the latest version of libpipeline. It builds fine, but all 
the tests fail with the following error:
/usr/src/ports/check/check-0.9.10-1/src/check-0.9.10/src/check_run.c:431: Error 
in call to timer_create: Invalid argument

So, I downloaded the source for check. The version of check that we have 
is a little out-of-date, but at a first glance, the code for 
timer_create looks okay to me.

Hmmm...I built check using the cygport file and then went into the tests 
folder and did a "make check" there. 5 of 6 tests failed and with that 
exact same error.

The version of check we have is 0.9.10 from April, 2013. The ChangeLog 
for 0.9.11 from November of 2013 contains the following:

	Wed, Nov 4, 2013: Released Check 0.9.11
	  based on r856 (2013-11-04 02:09:21 +0000)

	* Check compiles for Windows using the Cygwin environment, and all unit 
tests pass.

There's also a check 0.9.12 from January of this year.

It appears to me that we should upgrade check to at least 0.9.11, as I'm 
unconvinced that the current version is working.

-- 
Chris J. Breisch

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