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Re: Makewhatis problem in Man 1.5p-1
- From: Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi at acm dot org>
- To: Bruce Jones <brucejones at hawaii dot rr dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:28:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: Makewhatis problem in Man 1.5p-1
- References: <000001c6659f$a6371130$6401a8c0@brucerjones>
Hello Bruce,
Thank you for the report. This is a known issue in 1.6c (broken
makewhatis), I must admit I goofed up. The fix is in 1.6d yet to be
released (I did not rush a release containing only that fix as
downstream packagers added fixes of their own promptly, saving me the
effort).
1.6d is meant to clear a number of outstanding bugs, and I am getting a
bit perfectionist trying to address as many as I can, but it shall be
released soon ;-)
best -f
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:59 -1000, Bruce Jones wrote:
> Version info:
>
> Windows XP Pro SP1
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28
> Man 1.5p-1
>
> The makewhatis shell script generates an error message when $PWD contains a
> space, e.g. "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/username" The message is:
>
> /usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 380: cd: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or
> directory
>
> Apart from the message the script appears to execute correctly.
>
> Changing line 380 from 'cd $here' to 'cd "$here"' fixes the problem.
>
> man-1.6c/src/makewhatis.sh (from
> http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/) contains the same problem in
> line 394.
>
> I'm sending to the cygwin list also since it seems Windows systems are more
> likely to have paths with embedded spaces.
>
> Regards,
> Bruce
>
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