-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Currently man(1) and perl work around Cygwin's inability to handle illegal DOS filename characters by substituting '.' for '::', IOW:
$ man ExtUtils::Depends will display ExtUtils.Depends.3pm, which is created by perl on Cygwin instead of ExtUtils::Depends.3pm as on Linux. With 1.7, however, ':' is legal, but man still indiscriminately replaces '::' with '.'. The major difference is with the gtk2-perl bindings, which have their own process for manpage generation, and create manpages with '::' without exception. Of course, this didn't work on 1.5, so there was a workaround in cygport, but with 1.7 the manpages build OOTB. But man won't display them because it's looking for, e.g. Glib.index.3pm instead of the real Glib::index.3pm: $ ls /usr/share/man/man3/Glib::index.3pm.gz /usr/share/man/man3/Glib::index.3pm.gz $ man Glib::index No manual entry for Glib::index So AFAICS there are two options: 1) Completely remove the /::/./ substitution in both man and perl for 1.7; 2) Have man look for both '.' and '::'. Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkivJH8ACgkQpiWmPGlmQSMMPwCgnIjTcPLomNSGVqKdfwZ+SZla SXkAn048w6IEWv8fYA9OqH/l3HIKmebv =tiyw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
