[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.9.4-2

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.9.4-2

[Achim Gratz]

The man-db package is re-released as 2.9.4-2, the latest upstream
version.  This release works around a Windows bug that causes creation
of a spurious directory %SystemDrive% in the Cygwin installation root.

Man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system
accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place
of the traditional flat-text whatis databases.


Cygwin Notes
============

The man-db package includes a conditional perpetual postinstall script
that keeps the database updated each time setup is run if (and only if)
the database exists.  This update now runs in the background by default,
so setup is no longer waiting for the update to complete.  This can be
changed if needed, see below.  The diagnostic output from the update is
stored at /var/log/mandb-index.log, so you can check if there were
problems on the last update.

In order to create the database directly via setup, please install the
man-db-create-index package.  The removal of this package will not
remove an existing database, this still needs to be done manually if
required.

If your installation procedure requires that setup waits for the index
update to complete, install the man-db-index-synchronously package
instead.  The creation of a new database can take several minutes to
over an hour depending on how many manual pages are installed and how
fast your filesystem is.  Removal of this package will leave an existing
database in place, but switches the system back to do background
updates.

If you install "everything" that means both the above mentioned helper
packages get installed and the first installation will take a long time
as setup will wait for the newly created index to be complete.

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.9.4-2

[Henry S. Thompson]

Achim Gratz writes:

> The man-db package is re-released as 2.9.4-2, the latest upstream
> version.  This release works around a Windows bug that causes creation
> of a spurious directory %SystemDrive% in the Cygwin installation root.

Fails for me:

  >: man -k sasl
  man: /usr/bin/apropos: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

  >: gdb /usr/bin/man
  (gdb) ...
  (gdb) run -k sasl
  Starting program: /usr/bin/man -k sasl
  [New Thread 12608.0x3eac]
  [New Thread 12608.0x48f8]
  [New Thread 12608.0x279c]
  [New Thread 12608.0x1bd0]
  [New Thread 12608.0x4bd4]
  /usr/bin/man: /usr/bin/apropos: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

  >: gdb /usr/bin/apropos
  (gdb) run
  Starting program: /usr/bin/apropos
  [New Thread 17960.0x26ac]
  [New Thread 17960.0x26f0]
  [New Thread 17960.0x2600]
  [New Thread 17960.0x4d24]
  /usr/bin/whatis what?
  [Thread 17960.0x2600 exited with code 1]
  [Thread 17960.0x26f0 exited with code 1]
  [Thread 17960.0x43b4 exited with code 1]
  [Thread 17960.0x26ac exited with code 1]

  Program terminated with signal SIGHUP, Hangup.

  >: cygcheck -s /usr/bin/apropos
  H:\C64\bin\whatis.exe
    H:\C64\bin\cygmandb-2-9-4.dll
      H:\C64\bin\cygman-2-9-4.dll
        H:\C64\bin\cygwin1.dll
          C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll
            C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll
            C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
        H:\C64\bin\cygintl-8.dll
          H:\C64\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
        H:\C64\bin\cygpipeline-1.dll
      H:\C64\bin\cyggdbm-6.dll
        H:\C64\bin\cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll
  ...
  Windows 10 Professional Ver 10.0 Build 19044
  ...
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 3.2.0
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        Cygwin conv: 181
        API major: 0
        API minor: 340
        Shared data: 5
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 3
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Installations name: Installations
        Cygdrive default prefix:
        Build date:
        Shared id: cygwin1S5
  ...
  man-db                                 2.9.4-2                         OK
  
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.9.4-2

[Achim Gratz]

Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes:
>> The man-db package is re-released as 2.9.4-2, the latest upstream
>> version.  This release works around a Windows bug that causes creation
>> of a spurious directory %SystemDrive% in the Cygwin installation root.
>
> Fails for me:

Oh great, that's the gnulib bug with weak symbols…  I need to check how
it got in there and fix that.


Regards,
Achim.
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