From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14809 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2014 15:45:05 -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 14797 invoked by uid 89); 16 Aug 2014 15:45:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-la0-f52.google.com Received: from mail-la0-f52.google.com (HELO mail-la0-f52.google.com) (209.85.215.52) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:45:03 +0000 Received: by mail-la0-f52.google.com with SMTP id b17so3203775lan.11 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:45:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.152.43.6 with SMTP id s6mr18855999lal.65.1408203900148; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.108] (p5B1744DF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [91.23.68.223]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id mi10sm18014907lbc.19.2014.08.16.08.44.58 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53EF7C62.9010002@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:45:00 -0000 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dos2unix 6.0.6-1 & man-db limitation References: <53EF1162.10900@gmail.com> <53EF5C1E.105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53EF5C1E.105@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00316.txt.bz2 On 16/08/2014 15:26, Marco Atzeri wrote: > 3rd and final (I hope), the reason way only u2d man page has problem mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/u2d.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request it is because it has a double redirection while all the other pages have a single ".so" redirection d2u.1.gz .so dos2unix.1 mac2unix.1.gz .so dos2unix.1 u2d.1.gz .so unix2dos.1 unix2dos.1.gz .so dos2unix.1 unix2mac.1.gz .so dos2unix.1 u2d.1.gz .so unix2dos.1 -> unix2dos.1.gz .so dos2unix.1 -> dos2unix.1.gz the_real_page $ ls -l *unix* -rw-r--r-- 1 marco None 7143 Aug 5 00:31 dos2unix.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 marco None 46 Aug 5 00:31 mac2unix.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 marco None 46 Aug 5 00:31 unix2dos.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 marco None 46 Aug 5 00:31 unix2mac.1.gz So it is a limitation of man-db but the workaround is very simple $ cp d2u.1.gz u2d.1.gz Regards Marco -- 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