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: <41694D58.6080201@x-ray.at> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:55:20 +0200 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: PostInstallLast addons? References: <4162386A DOT 1080009 AT pastornet DOT net DOT au> <20041005084757 DOT GK6702 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <41681FAE DOT 7050508 AT x-ray DOT at> <20041009201936 DOT GA11424 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <1097371147 DOT 11430 DOT 206127296 AT webmail DOT messagingengine DOT com> <20041010030550 DOT GA14377 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4168F7CE DOT 2080504 AT robinbowes DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4168F7CE.2080504@robinbowes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Robin Bowes schrieb: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 06:19:07PM -0700, Lex Ein wrote: >>> "Cygwin Setup - Finish >>> >>> Create icons Have setup create icons for easy access to the Cygwin >>> environment. [ ] Create icon on _Desktop [ ] Add icon to _Start >>> Menu >>> Optional tasks - (may take many minutes!) >>> [ ] Build database (makewhatis) of man page short descriptions for >>> 'whatis' & 'apropos'. >>> [ ] Build database (updatedb) of file names for 'locate'. >>> >>> Display README information at exit. [ ] Display >>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ directory of README files. >> >> I think that's a very good idea. It would need to be conditional on the >> existence of man and, I guess, find, though. > > In the context of some of the earlier posts in this thread, can I > suggest that the wording is a little less daunting to those not familiar > with nuix/cygwin. OK, so "Build database (makewhatis) of man page short > descriptions for 'whatis' & 'apropos'" may be technically correct, but > wouldn't something like this be more "helpful": > > Optional tasks - (may take many minutes!) > [ ] Build help index (used by 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands) > [ ] Build file index (used by 'locate' command) [ ] Update help index (used by 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands) [ ] Update file index (used by 'locate' command) But all this would a non-issue if we would create these new commands or functionality. Then no setup changes would be needed. * updatewhatis which gets the filelist of the new man files. * updatedb which should accept a new argument for the package MANIFEST to be merged into. Easier just a removal and add option. On unix it's a non-issue because they have faster forks and esp. faster filesystems. $ time makewhatis real 16m6.209s user 7m56.942s sys 2m38.845s $ time updatedb /usr/bin/find: /.ssh: Permission denied /usr/bin/find: Fehler in /etc/mtab: /a.: No such file or directory real 2m22.452s user 0m0.674s sys 0m0.636s BTW, a nice locate bug eh. algorithmic issue (problematic trigram): $ locate xx /bin/cygdb_cxx-3.1.dll /bin/cygdb_cxx-4.1.dll /bin/cygdb_cxx-4.2.dll /bin/cyggmpxx-3.dll /bin/xxd.exe $ which /bin/xxd.exe /bin/xxd.exe: Command not found. $ ls /bin/??x.exe /bin/osx.exe /bin/ptx.exe /bin/rdx.exe /bin/tex.exe /bin/upx.exe But I'm just too busy right now for this. I have to bring out a new release and search for another libtool bug. Besides the pet cygwin projects. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ -- 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/