X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:06:09 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [Packaging error] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.12-1 Message-ID: <20070404160609.GB17508@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <82tzvxg5jn.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> <2bf229d30704031640q4ef678f9o4c2ee706b914aa43@mail.gmail.com> <20070404051157.GB16539@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <2bf229d30704040657wd53ee3k49db7263095be24@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2bf229d30704040657wd53ee3k49db7263095be24@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:57:17AM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>>I thought it was decided to keep the MinGW Runtime man pages separate >>>from the Cygwin man pages? >> >>Yes, it was, but I don't remember concluding that putting them in >>/usr/man was the solution. Please either don't install them at all or >>put them in a mingw-specific location. > >Sorry, I must have come to the wrong conclusion. I had thought that >since Cygwin by default installs man pages to /usr/share/man >installing the MinGW specific man pages in /usr/man as long as they >were prefixed with 'mingw-' was OK. This allows users to do a 'man >mingw-dirname' without having to modify their MANPATH. > >If it's desired that they not be included, I'll produce an updated >release with them removed. I'd rather have them available but I don't want you to invent a new top-level directory to put them in: % tar vtjf mingw-runtime-3.12-1.tar.bz2 | grep /man/ tar: Record size = 8 blocks drwxr-xr-x ironhead/Administrators 0 2007-03-26 03:01:02 usr/man/ drwxr-xr-x ironhead/Administrators 0 2007-03-26 03:04:38 usr/man/man3/ -rw-r--r-- ironhead/Administrators 8956 2007-03-26 03:04:38 usr/man/man3/basename.3 -rw-r--r-- ironhead/Administrators 8956 2007-03-26 03:04:37 usr/man/man3/dirname.3 These should be installed in usr/share/man and basename.3 should become mingw-basename.3. Ditto for dirname. cgf -- 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/