Re: dirname and basename in MinGW runtime

2007-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:19:45PM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> Chris Sutcliffe writes: > >> Hey All, >> 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

Re: dirname and basename in MinGW runtime

2007-03-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Chris Sutcliffe writes: > Hey All, > 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. cygwin uses /usr/share/man a

Re: dirname and basename in MinGW runtime

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:43:56AM -, Dave Korn wrote: >On 19 March 2007 02:41, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > >>> How about /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/man? >> >> Idealy, that path would need to be added to MANPATH, and if it were >> added, doing a 'man 3 basename' may turn up the MinGW implementation. >

RE: dirname and basename in MinGW runtime

2007-03-18 Thread Dave Korn
On 19 March 2007 02:41, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> How about /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/man? > > Idealy, that path would need to be added to MANPATH, and if it were > added, doing a 'man 3 basename' may turn up the MinGW implementation. Yes, but don't those two factors mitigate each other? IOW, if

Re: dirname and basename in MinGW runtime

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
>> 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 wou

Re: dirname and basename in MinGW runtime

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
>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 suffi

RE: dirname and basename in MinGW runtime

2007-03-18 Thread Dave Korn
On 19 March 2007 02:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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 fu

Re: dirname and basename in MinGW runtime

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
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