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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:19:33 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
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I stated here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00576.html
that the "Problem with 575 man pages" reported here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00536.html
was not actually a cygport issue.  I was wrong.  It is a problem with
cygport.

Here's what the man3/ directory looks like just after the src_install()
procedure finished, but before __postinst (removed owner info for width)

...       (sz)   date+time
lrwxrwxrwx 15   Mar 27 00:22 wunctrl.3x.gz -> curs_util.3x.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 17   Mar 27 00:20 wvline.3x.gz -> curs_border.3x.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 21   Mar 27 00:21 wvline_set.3x.gz -> curs_border_set.3x.gz

Here's what it looks like after __postinst:

...       (sz)   date+time
-rw-r--r-- 20   Mar 27 00:30 wunctrl.3x.gz
-rw-r--r-- 22   Mar 27 00:30 wvline.3x.gz
-rw-r--r-- 26   Mar 27 00:30 wvline_set.3x.gz

And...
$ zcat wunctrl.3x.gz
gzip: wunctrl.3x.gz: not in gzip format

$ cat wunctrl.3x.gz
.so curs_util.3x.gz

It looks like the fact that ncurses' install procedure already gzipped
the "real" manpages, and named the symlinks with a trailing .gz,
confuses cygport's __postinst procedure a bit.  I've worked around it in
the latest ncurses release(s), but just wanted to re-report the issue.

--
Chuck

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