[octave] packaging bug! (was: Re: man, info fail me in cygwin 1.5.18)

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>]

Rolf Maier wrote:

> Hello,
>    I upgraded cygwin to 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-07-02 20:30 i686.
> If I type 'man man' I get
>
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".ll 7.2i"; echo ".nr LL 
> 7.2i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /usr/bin/cat '/usr/share/man/man1/man.1'; echo 
> ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c 
> -mandoc 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -isrR) exited with status 127.
> No manual entry for man
>
> I did a 'makewhatis', yet 'man -k' still fails:
>
> $ man -k man
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command '/usr/bin/apropos' 'man' exited with status 127.


No idea about the man problem, sorry.


>    If I type 'info man' I get multiple listings to help on fftw3 and 
> Octave,
> and nothing else. Can anyone tell me what might have happened,
> and hence what I need to fix?
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers,
>    Rolf

About info dir file:
fftw3 was not uploaded yet, but the octave package contains:
/usr/share/info/dir
which is a packaging bug.  If info files are distributed, the
dir file needs to be regenerated, postinstall script should handle
this (or require _update_info_dir package).


Thanks for the report,
Gerrit
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