X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages? Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:37:28 -0500 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <20060809182417.GB29752@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20060809182417.GB29752@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >> I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes >> to cygwin.patches? > > No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the > winsup hierarchy. The first line of printf(3) says "NEWLIB" when > I type "man 3 printf" so that's where a man page patch should go. Ok, that's what I kind-of thought... Hmm, shame on the newlib folks for having such a poorly-up-to-date manpage. :-) Anyway, I guess this means that gmane.comp.lib.newlib will suffice? (But... this means what? If the newlib folks don't like it, Cygwin is just stuck with a /wrong/ manpage?) -- Matthew This is not the list you're looking for. -- Perversion of Obi Wan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/