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Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 12:08:39 -0700
From: John R Lyon <jack AT sie DOT arizona DOT edu>
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Subject: A bug in makewhatis?
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After a recent upgrade of Cygwin, I find that "makewhatis" does not 
terminate normally.

This error message appears twice:

/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 355: /var/cache/man/whatis: cannot overwrite 
existing file

and it creates a zero-length file called "whatis" in /var/cache/man. 
I've removed this file prior to running makewhatis only to have it 
reappear in its zero-length condition when makewhatis terminates 
unsuccessfully.

This happens on both XP and Win 2000 installations of Cygwin.

- Jack


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