On 2019-06-18 11:46, Townsend, Paul wrote: > The cygwin-doc-... package has several problems in at least the > /usr/share/man/man3 directory where multiple file names differ only in case, > i.e., the tar file contains, in this order, > usr/share/man/man3/jN.3.gz > usr/share/man/man3/jn.3.gz > The jN.3.gz file contains the roff text and the jn.3.gz file contains a roff > .so directive pointing at jN.3. The file that ends up in man3 is jn.3.gz > and jN.3.gz disappears. > The simplest solution would be to just remove jn.3.gz and similar .so files > from the tarball. This would at least allow the roff text files to exist. > FMI - where was the tarball created? It certainly was not on a computer > with Windows and case insensitivity.
A lot of package maintainers work on Linux and test in Windows VMs. These conflicts should be picked up by the setup program tar extract. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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
