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| Date: | Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:10:33 +0200 |
| From: | waterlan <waterlan AT xs4all DOT nl> |
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| Subject: | Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port |
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waterlan schreef op 2014-04-24 21:43: > Chris J. Breisch schreef op 2014-04-17 20:32: >> 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? >>> >> >> Yes. And I agree this is a good idea. >> >> Dependencies: gdbm, libpipeline >> >> Build dependencies: pkgconfig, check, and the typical build stuff >> (make, gcc, etc.) >> >> As I indicated earlier, I believe the current version of check is not >> working properly. >> >> Check-0.9.12 seems to work out-of-the-box. Configure with >> --prefix=/usr. >> >> "make check" on check reports all tests passed, despite what appear to >> be some failures. The CHANGELOG says that this version should pass all >> tests on Cygwin. I've just subscribed to the mailing list and will >> check on whether these failures can be ignored or not. Still, it >> definitely appears to work better than the version we have now, which >> only passes 1 test in the test suite. >> >> Libpipeline-1.3.0 seems to work out-of-the-box. Configure with >> --prefix=/usr. >> >> Oddly a "make check" for libpipeline-1.3.0 doesn't appear to actually >> do anything. This was not the case for earlier versions of >> libpipeline. Well, that's one way of getting rid of the test failures, >> I guess. >> >> Man-db-2.6.7 appears to work out-of-the-box. >> >> Configuring man-db is a little harder than the other two. >> >> ../man-db-2.6.7/configure --prefix=/usr --disable-setuid >> --docdir=/usr/share/doc/man-db > > When I run that I get this error: > > checking for db1/db.h... no > checking ndbm.h usability... no > checking ndbm.h presence... no > checking for ndbm.h... no > configure: error: Fatal: no supported database library/header found > I needed to install gdbm-devel and then I could install man-db. > > >> If you don't add the --disable-setuid, you'll need to add a "man" user >> to your system. If you're not using Corinna's snapshots, you'll need >> to add the user to /etc/passwd as well. >> >> I'm not sure about the --docdir switch. That seemed to be consistent >> with Cygwin, but an actual package maintainer would be a better source >> of info on this. >> >> A couple of warnings are generated: >> >> *** Warning: This system can not link to static lib archive >> /usr/lib/libpipeline.la. >> *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in >> when >> *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a >> *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have. >> >> and a similar one for libman.la. I had the same warnings. >> I do have shared versions of these libraries, so I'm not sure why the >> warnings appear. I seem to recall a thread about something similar >> recently in the Cygwin mailing lists. I may go back and check. >> >> Once installed, you'll want to do a 'mandb -c' to create the database. >> It will report numerous warnings which can generally be ignored. See >> the manpage on mandb. This takes a while. I got a couple of warnings. Not very much. >> When new packages are added or updated on your system, you should run >> 'mandb -c' again. This seems like something that should be part of >> postinstall. I did not do that. As far as I could see man-db worked very well. It displayed UTF-8, Latin-1, and KOI8-R encoded man pages correctly. I only tried 32 bit. I used check 0.9.12 libpipeline 1.3.0 man-db 2.6.7.1 best regards, >> My 32-bit Cygwin install has a lot of gzipped files and the >> uncompressed versions under /usr/share/man. mandb didn't like that at >> all. That is probably something I did and not a Cygwin problem. >> >> Note that I've done only the most minimal of testing. make check >> passes for man-db and I've opened a few man pages. They seem to work. >> >> Obviously, someone with decision making power should decide if this is >> something we want to add to Cygwin. My vote is yes, but that's just >> one vote. Or maybe even zero. I'm not sure I get a vote. :) >> >> Also obviously, if the decision is to go forward, these three items >> need to be packaged up appropriately and a package maintainer >> assigned. Check is already a Cygwin package, but needs updating. >> >> Somehow I have a feeling about who will be nominated for this task. >> >> What minimal testing I have done has been on both 32-bit and 64-bit >> Cygwin 1.7.29. -- Erwin Waterlander http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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