Greetings, Keith Christian! > So (I'm talking to you as if you are the maintainer of man-db....(are > you?)) mandb sounds like the man system Debian uses, where (at least a > few years ago) the whatis database is created by invoking "mandb -C."
> Testing this - "mandb" alone creates the databases, even though there > is a "-c" argument to"mandb," which I am running at this moment. > "mandb -c" is emitting errors as it runs, "can't open," "bad symlink," > "whatis parse for xxxxxx failed," etc. Check list archive about end of a previous month. People met something akin to your error, I recall. And narrowed a kind of solution. > Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files > created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb? Neither. man-db just don't know, neither care about them. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 02.07.2014, <02:02> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
