On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:37:56PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >I'm getting ready to roll out a new MinGW runtime, as part of the new >release dirname and basename functions have been added. As part of the >package, man pages for both functions install to /usr/man/man3. My >question is, is this a good thing? Until this point it seems the the >runtime has lived in it's own isolated world within Cygwin, but these >man pages have crept in to the Cygwin world. > >Is there a better place in which these man pages should be installed >from withing Cygwin?
I don't know where they should live but they definitely shouldn't be installed in /usr/man/man3/dirname.3 and /usr/man/man3/basename.3. Maybe adding a mingw- to the beginning of the filename would be sufficient. cgf