X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=PVMZLg0PgAZdrJog+ThRZ7vTlatE7QeEfrTA8oO+F+0 /QZwiBEUWdHq7D4WM7Q5Sv0prKjcO0TaunLeF+5ynZOlsOYEzPVgru07PhEIRSJe VzM7pMFRj4+COubYWki3mRpwe2OBH+qp47i61Ms2YpbBIpDjAZou+L1tAgZW7Hzk = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=GD9tVvyqfxAsVELIEtIpKfCKaaM=; b=ynWea6bQEa0IhY+T6 6IEiW8Kc61uBr9GhnwBiSkbBTKZDYVWSD77Oi5zUhCrnc0ZAEVvMMrq2n6NsdiHq 2Ee+Ctr8h5Nvsr9YxW41qee09Q2vz4Pxih0mCxSvdNDwIBpUeYp4hTX1SOFw9DTe Bf3CmY2Wwo9imf2NAT1YQGBc7I= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl Message-ID: <53536C21.9050809@xs4all.nl> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 08:41:37 +0200 From: Erwin Waterlander User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port References: <5241EF7D DOT 9080309 AT xs4all DOT nl> <52433E7A DOT 4070600 AT xs4all DOT nl> <524341E5 DOT 6080601 AT xs4all DOT nl> <5322EA04 DOT 3040008 AT xs4all DOT nl> <53501E4E DOT 7080103 AT breisch DOT org> In-Reply-To: <53501E4E.7080103@breisch.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes op 17-04-14 20:32, Chris J. Breisch schreef: > Erwin Waterlander wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to >> 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. >> >> I think that Cygwin should also switch to man-db. man-db is much better >> in handling man pages in different encoding. >> >> Before man-db, libpipeline (http://libpipeline.nongnu.org/) needs to be >> ported, because man-db uses it. >> >> I have tried to port man-db to Cygwin, but I did not succeed. I got >> stuck in libpipeline. Did anyone else succeed? >> > > Yes. And I agree this is a good idea. > > Dependencies: gdbm, libpipeline > > Build dependencies: pkgconfig, check, and the typical build stuff > (make, gcc, etc.) > > As I indicated earlier, I believe the current version of check is not > working properly. > > Check-0.9.12 seems to work out-of-the-box. Configure with --prefix=/usr. > > "make check" on check reports all tests passed, despite what appear to > be some failures. The CHANGELOG says that this version should pass all > tests on Cygwin. I've just subscribed to the mailing list and will > check on whether these failures can be ignored or not. Still, it > definitely appears to work better than the version we have now, which > only passes 1 test in the test suite. > > Libpipeline-1.3.0 seems to work out-of-the-box. Configure with > --prefix=/usr. > > Oddly a "make check" for libpipeline-1.3.0 doesn't appear to actually > do anything. This was not the case for earlier versions of > libpipeline. Well, that's one way of getting rid of the test failures, > I guess. > > Man-db-2.6.7 appears to work out-of-the-box. > > Configuring man-db is a little harder than the other two. > > ../man-db-2.6.7/configure --prefix=/usr --disable-setuid > --docdir=/usr/share/doc/man-db > > If you don't add the --disable-setuid, you'll need to add a "man" user > to your system. If you're not using Corinna's snapshots, you'll need > to add the user to /etc/passwd as well. > > I'm not sure about the --docdir switch. That seemed to be consistent > with Cygwin, but an actual package maintainer would be a better source > of info on this. > > A couple of warnings are generated: > > *** Warning: This system can not link to static lib archive > /usr/lib/libpipeline.la. > *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when > *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a > *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have. > > and a similar one for libman.la. > > I do have shared versions of these libraries, so I'm not sure why the > warnings appear. I seem to recall a thread about something similar > recently in the Cygwin mailing lists. I may go back and check. > > Once installed, you'll want to do a 'mandb -c' to create the database. > It will report numerous warnings which can generally be ignored. See > the manpage on mandb. This takes a while. > > When new packages are added or updated on your system, you should run > 'mandb -c' again. This seems like something that should be part of > postinstall. > > My 32-bit Cygwin install has a lot of gzipped files and the > uncompressed versions under /usr/share/man. mandb didn't like that at > all. That is probably something I did and not a Cygwin problem. > > Note that I've done only the most minimal of testing. make check > passes for man-db and I've opened a few man pages. They seem to work. > > Obviously, someone with decision making power should decide if this is > something we want to add to Cygwin. My vote is yes, but that's just > one vote. Or maybe even zero. I'm not sure I get a vote. :) > > Also obviously, if the decision is to go forward, these three items > need to be packaged up appropriately and a package maintainer > assigned. Check is already a Cygwin package, but needs updating. > > Somehow I have a feeling about who will be nominated for this task. > > What minimal testing I have done has been on both 32-bit and 64-bit > Cygwin 1.7.29. > Hi Chris, Thanks for all the good work! I will see if I can reproduce your work and do some testing. First I make a new dos2unix release for Cygwin which comes now with several new translations of the man page, all in UTF-8. This will break with the standard man configuration of Cygwin. I will use it also for testing man-db. My vote is also yes. Now we have already two votes :) best regards, Erwin Waterlander -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple