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Re: Please Upload: mingw-runtime-3.12-2 (gold stars for Volker and Chris)
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:17:15PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>There does seem to be an issue though:
>>
>>ironhead@EUSD002605 /usr/share/man/mingw
>>$ ls
>>basename.mingw dirname.mingw
>>
>>ironhead@EUSD002605 /usr/share/man/mingw
>>$ man mingw basename
>>No entry for basename in section mingw of the manual
>>
>>ironhead@EUSD002605 /usr/share/man/mingw
>>$ man -v
>>man, version 1.6e
>
>I found the problem. man is expecting manmingw not mingw (for the
>section), so what it's looking for is:
>
>/usr/share/man/manmingw/basename.mingw
>/usr/share/man/manmingw/dirname.mingw
>
>not
>
>/usr/share/man/mingw/basename.mingw
>/usr/share/man/mingw/dirname.mingw
>
>Which makes sense really, given how the existing sections work.
>Should I make a new release to work in this fashion, or should man be
>modified?
I think a new release of mingw is called for. Sorry.
cgf