Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20030115143542.97687.qmail@web11504.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:35:42 -0800 (PST) From: beehatch Subject: makewhatis failure To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii running /usr/sbin/makewhatis gives: ./makewhatis: cannot create /var/cache/man/whatis: error 17 running /usr/sbin/makewhatis -v gives: ./makewhatis: cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent anybody have any suggestions? i've found a couple makewhatis issues in the mailing list, but none seem directly relevant. thanks in advance -mt (the gory details: Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Jan 15 09:30:58 2003 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 Path: .\ h:\cygwin\usr\local\bin h:\cygwin\bin h:\cygwin\bin c:\PROGRA~1\Borland\CBUILD~1\Bin c:\PROGRA~1\Borland\CBUILD~1\Projects\Bpl c:\Program Files\texmf\miktex\bin c:\Perl\bin\ c:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 c:\WINNT c:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\WBEM c:\DMI\WIN32\BIN c:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\7.10\Accessories\ c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System c:\matlab6p1\bin\win32 c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin c:\Program Files\SSH Secure Shell c:\MATLAB6p1 h:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32 WinDir: C:\WINNT HOME = `h:\cygwin\home\Administrator' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/home/Administrator' USER = `Administrator' Use `-r' to scan registry a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 19053Mb 63% CP CS UN PA FC boot d: fd N/A N/A e: cd N/A N/A f: cd N/A N/A g: cd N/A N/A h: hd NTFS 27015Mb 43% CP CS UN PA FC files i: hd NTFS 11146Mb 70% CP CS UN PA FC archives h:\cygwin / system binmode h:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode h:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode . /cygdrive user binmode,cygdrive Found: h:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: h:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: h:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Found: h:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: h:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe Found: h:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe Found: h:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: h:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: h:\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: c:\PROGRA~1\Borland\CBUILD~1\Bin\make.exe Found: h:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe 644k 2002/12/08 h:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto.dll 45k 2001/04/25 h:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll 35k 2002/01/09 h:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll 19k 2002/02/20 h:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll 17k 2001/06/28 h:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll 20k 2002/10/10 h:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll 306k 2002/04/27 h:\cygwin\bin\cyghttpd.dll 929k 2002/06/24 h:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll 22k 2001/12/13 h:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll 28k 2002/09/20 h:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll 21k 2001/06/20 h:\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll 119k 2002/02/09 h:\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll 32k 2002/12/27 h:\cygwin\bin\cygltdl-3.dll 26k 2001/04/25 h:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll 20k 2002/01/09 h:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll 156k 2001/04/25 h:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll 175k 2002/01/09 h:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll 226k 2001/04/25 h:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll 202k 2002/01/09 h:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll 15k 2001/04/25 h:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll 12k 2002/01/09 h:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll 40k 2001/11/21 h:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll 39k 2001/11/21 h:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll 179k 2002/07/22 h:\cygwin\bin\cygpng12.dll 22k 2002/06/09 h:\cygwin\bin\cygpopt-0.dll 108k 2001/06/28 h:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll 127k 2002/10/10 h:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll 165k 2002/12/08 h:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll 550k 2002/12/19 h:\cygwin\bin\cygtcl83.dll 12k 2002/12/19 h:\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip83.dll 253k 2002/02/10 h:\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll 217k 2002/12/19 h:\cygwin\bin\cygtix4183.dll 830k 2002/12/19 h:\cygwin\bin\cygtk83.dll 50k 2002/03/12 h:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll 880k 2002/12/25 h:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.18 DLL epoch: 19 DLL bad signal mask: 19005 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 API major: 0 API minor: 69 Shared data: 3 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 2 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Wed Dec 25 15:37:50 EST 2002 Shared id: cygwin1S3 Cygwin Package Information Package Version XFree86-base 4.2.0-1 XFree86-bin 4.2.0-2 XFree86-etc 4.2.0-1 XFree86-fenc 4.2.0-2 XFree86-fnts 4.2.0-2 XFree86-lib 4.2.0-3 XFree86-startup-scripts4.2.0-3 XFree86-xserv 4.2.0-15 _update-info-dir 00113-1 apache 1.3.24-5 ash 20020731-1 autoconf 2.54-1 autoconf-devel 2.57-1 autoconf-stable 2.13-4 automake 1.7.1-1 automake-devel 1.7.2-1 automake-stable 1.4p5-5 base-files 1.1-1 base-passwd 1.0-1 bash 2.05b-8 binutils 20021117-1 ctags 5.2-1 cygutils 1.1.3-1 cygwin 1.3.18-1 cygwin-doc 1.2-1 diff 1.0-1 diffutils 2.8.1-1 emacs 21.2-11 emacs-X11 21.2-11 file 3.37-1 fileutils 4.1-1 findutils 4.1.7-4 gawk 3.1.1-5 gcc 3.2-3 gcc-mingw 20020817-4 gcc2 2.95.3-10 gdb 20021218-1 gdbm 1.8.0-4 gettext 0.11.5-1 grep 2.5-1 groff 1.18.1-2 gzip 1.3.3-4 jpeg 6b-7 less 378-1 libiconv2 1.8-2 libintl 0.10.38-3 libintl1 0.10.40-1 libintl2 0.11.5-1 libltdl3 20021227-1 libncurses5 5.2-1 libncurses6 5.2-8 libpng12 1.2.4-2 libpopt0 1.6.4-4 libreadline4 4.1-2 libreadline5 4.3-2 libtool 20020705-1 libtool-devel 20021227-1 libtool-stable 1.4.3-1 login 1.7-1 m4 1.4-1 make 3.79.1-7 man 1.5j-1 mingw-runtime 2.3-1 mktemp 1.4-1 mod_ssl 2.8.8-1.3.24-1 more 2.11o-1 ncurses 5.2-8 newlib-man 20020801 openssh 3.5p1-2 openssl 0.9.6h-1 pcre 3.7-1 perl 5.6.1-2 perl_manpages 5.8.0-1 python 2.2.2-1 readline 4.3-2 sed 4.0.1-1 sh-utils 2.0-3 tar 1.13.25-1 tcltk 20021218-1 tcsh 6.11.00-5 termcap 20020930-1 terminfo 5.2-3 texinfo 4.2-4 textutils 2.0.21-1 tiff 3.5.7-1 unzip 5.50-1 vim 6.1-2 w32api 2.1-1 which 1.5-1 whois 4.6.1-1 zip 2.3-2 zlib 1.1.4-1 ) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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