X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:17:43 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with 575 man pages -- cygport problem? Message-ID: <20090316131743.GC23977@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <49BDE52A DOT 80100 AT veritech DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49BDE52A.80100@veritech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:35:38AM -0400, Lee D.Rothstein wrote: > A large number (575) of 'man' pages, that reference other man pages using a > '.so' (source include) reference, fail to work because the plain text files > have the '.gz' extension appended without actually being gzipped. Could > this be due to a mishap in or with the 'cygport' package? > > Each reference appears to be okay (I've only tested a handful), iff you > remove the '.gz' extension. > > Following is a list of such man page error messages with a few of them > actually verified to have the situation I describe above. Please stop repeating the same message. 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/