From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27265 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2014 12:58:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27250 invoked by uid 89); 14 Mar 2014 12:58:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ie0-f173.google.com Received: from mail-ie0-f173.google.com (HELO mail-ie0-f173.google.com) (209.85.223.173) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:58:25 +0000 Received: by mail-ie0-f173.google.com with SMTP id rl12so2473787iec.4 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:58:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=b3eE/7982YxKzGOhFAOPVibP4pdty6EkOpkF6sW4VGM=; b=LCybK+btGAMgGPaoBRI6oMf18MLc8WIK3cBdqeBCBc0ajzjoeTQ+uDRH9jcgc+FqQn hV79Rd60dkgE3ismGrLt8zw0JMLWRYVx6hUcpycMFRrJ1xc82TdMvFH/IQBoUDTq+rCV vKZBgflWst8JfcZeV3Uaa3vIv1+cES0ooCRnuxe/DujY1VboHy7xdy+7XBENZxFtro3O ekntdnNMNV6k5MZfcinIX5+fQN2O46TSgxznw0sFiWsJIBy7fycBHXshBFRsltVf3+G9 lIflcRaQabCsBuEU80XITyrgBkSRsL2uvqmwQizAApwoCWGkUXN75Iubgnz26fTLUWcM 5nsQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnTHavxhm4qfXUSy3apjFYlfrO7jhyv/2qjW1aoCl8WJawHiojfOm/x8QrFqpZLeTLAd96T X-Received: by 10.42.173.68 with SMTP id q4mr6095750icz.41.1394801904237; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.31] (76-219-158-219.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net. [76.219.158.219]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ro10sm78988307igb.6.2014.03.14.05.58.23 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5322FCE8.50604@breisch.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:52:00 -0000 From: "Chris J. Breisch" User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.9 (Windows/20140128) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port References: <5241EF7D.9080309@xs4all.nl> <52433E7A.4070600@xs4all.nl> <524341E5.6080601@xs4all.nl> <5322EA04.3040008@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <5322EA04.3040008@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-03/txt/msg00247.txt.bz2 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? > > regards, > > Erwin > I downloaded the latest version of libpipeline. It builds fine, but all the tests fail with the following error: /usr/src/ports/check/check-0.9.10-1/src/check-0.9.10/src/check_run.c:431: Error in call to timer_create: Invalid argument So, I downloaded the source for check. The version of check that we have is a little out-of-date, but at a first glance, the code for timer_create looks okay to me. Hmmm...I built check using the cygport file and then went into the tests folder and did a "make check" there. 5 of 6 tests failed and with that exact same error. The version of check we have is 0.9.10 from April, 2013. The ChangeLog for 0.9.11 from November of 2013 contains the following: Wed, Nov 4, 2013: Released Check 0.9.11 based on r856 (2013-11-04 02:09:21 +0000) * Check compiles for Windows using the Cygwin environment, and all unit tests pass. There's also a check 0.9.12 from January of this year. It appears to me that we should upgrade check to at least 0.9.11, as I'm unconvinced that the current version is working. -- Chris J. Breisch -- 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