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Re: perl-ming does not install properly



On 7/20/2010 4:55 AM, David Sastre wrote:
2010/7/20, Lee D. Rothstein<l1ee057@veritech.com>:
from 'cygcheck -c':

    Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Action.3pm.gz from package
perl-ming
    Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::BinaryData.3pm.gz from package
perl-ming
    Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Bitmap.3pm.gz from package
perl-ming
<SNIP>
Here cygcheck also reports an incomplete install:

$ cygcheck -v -c perl-ming
Cygwin Package Information
Last downloaded files to: C:\cygwin\local_dir
Last downloaded files from: http://cygwin.basemirror.de/

But:
<SNIP>

$ ls -lrt $(cygcheck -v -c perl-ming | grep -i missing | awk '{print $3}')
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrador Administradores 3.1K 2010-06-25 12:26
/usr/share/man/man3/SWF::VideoStream.3pm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrador Administradores 3.5K 2010-06-25 12:26
/usr/share/man/man3/SWF::TextField.3pm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrador Administradores 2.7K 2010-06-25 12:26
/usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Text.3pm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrador Administradores 2.3K 2010-06-25 12:26
/usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Sprite.3pm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrador Administradores 2.5K 2010-06-25 12:26
/usr/share/man/man3/SWF::SoundInstance.3pm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrador Administradores 2.1K 2010-06-25 12:26
/usr/share/man/man3/SWF::PrebuiltClip.3pm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrador Administradores 5.8K 2010-06-25 12:26
/usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Movie.3pm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrador Administradores 2.2K 2010-06-25 12:26
<snip>
My guess is that colons in manpages' filenames are problematic for
cygcheck, a pure windows app, because colons are forbiden in windows'
filenames.

$ ldd $(which cygcheck)
         ntdll.dll =>  /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll (0x7c910000)
         kernel32.dll =>  /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll (0x7c800000)
         ADVAPI32.DLL =>  /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/ADVAPI32.DLL (0x77da0000)
         RPCRT4.dll =>  /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/RPCRT4.dll (0x77e50000)
         Secur32.dll =>  /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/Secur32.dll (0x77fc0000)
         USER32.dll =>  /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/USER32.dll (0x7e390000)
         GDI32.dll =>  /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/GDI32.dll (0x77ef0000)
         msvcrt.dll =>  /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/msvcrt.dll (0x77be0000)

Try, for example,

$ man SWF::VideoStream

It works OK.
Corinna,

Is this another problem with cygcheck and Cygwin 1.7?

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