RE: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

2013-05-10 Thread Rick Patterson
Hi. So, the issue seems to be the "vim-common" common component includes Perl, and Perl is bringing in all that other stuff. I see there was some discussion on the forums years ago about making this change. It appears that VIM can be built to interface to certain languages like Perl. This is a

Re: Cygwin manpages clobbered

2013-05-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Warren Young wrote: > On 5/9/2013 22:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I haven't tried digging further to figure out how these man pages were > http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/doc/test/ccp.3 > http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/doc/test/ccp.pdf > I think these outputs look pretty good, myself. The HTML is

Re: Clean install, incomplete setup - no home dir, broken PATH

2013-05-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/10/2013 3:04 PM, Daniel Davis wrote: Is there some way I can find out why /etc/profile isn't being called when the shell starts? /var/log is empty but for setup.log* and I don't see any windows event logs for cygwin. Maybe that would lead to better guesses as to why/how the install brok

Re: Clean install, incomplete setup - no home dir, broken PATH

2013-05-10 Thread Daniel Davis
Thanks for the reply Warren. I think that /etc/passwd is being correctly created because: * it exists * it has an entry for the user that is me * mkpassd -l and mkgroup -l both complete w/o err ($?=0) * immediately after install, in the first mintty I create, sourcing /etc/profile (ie

Re: Cygwin manpages clobbered

2013-05-10 Thread Warren Young
On 5/10/2013 08:31, Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't know what Corinna's return has to do with this. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2013-q2/msg00011.html The open question is whether we're going to switch all the DOCTOOL tags and *.sgml in winsup/cygwin to Doxygen, or keep it as DocBoo

Re: Cygwin path conversion routines

2013-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 07:56:26PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >It'd be great to have http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/func-cygwin-conv-path.html >also document what happens if a path passed for conversion does already look >good. E.g. what Win-2-Posix conversion does with thin

Re: Cygwin manpages clobbered

2013-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:29:04AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 03:48:37AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >>On 5/9/2013 22:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> >>> Warren, if you want to take over the cygwin-doc package you're welcome >>> to it. >> >>Pending our discussion wit

Re: Cygwin manpages clobbered

2013-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 03:48:37AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 5/9/2013 22:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> Warren, if you want to take over the cygwin-doc package you're welcome >> to it. > >Pending our discussion with Corinna when she gets back, sure. > >I haven't tried digging further to f

Re: Cygwin manpages clobbered

2013-05-10 Thread Warren Young
On 5/9/2013 22:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: Warren, if you want to take over the cygwin-doc package you're welcome to it. Pending our discussion with Corinna when she gets back, sure. I haven't tried digging further to figure out how these man pages were generated for the cygwin-doc package