Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-30 Thread waterlan
waterlan schreef op 2014-04-25 00:10: waterlan schreef op 2014-04-24 21:43: Chris J. Breisch schreef op 2014-04-17 20:32: Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. I thin

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-24 Thread Chris J. Breisch
waterlan wrote: I must have done something wrong in the build before I sent this. Re-building libpipeline does cause 'make check' to execute the tests. I got one failure. I've talked to the owner of the project, and he's sent me a patch that does eliminate the failure. So I now have a libpipelin

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-24 Thread waterlan
waterlan schreef op 2014-04-24 21:43: Chris J. Breisch schreef op 2014-04-17 20:32: Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. I think that Cygwin should also switch to man

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-24 Thread waterlan
Chris J. Breisch schreef op 2014-04-17 20:32: Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. I think that Cygwin should also switch to man-db. man-db is much better in handlin

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-24 Thread waterlan
Chris J. Breisch schreef op 2014-04-23 17:18: Chris J. Breisch wrote: Check-0.9.12 seems to work out-of-the-box. Configure with --prefix=/usr. "make check" on check reports all tests passed, despite what appear to be some failures. The CHANGELOG says that this version should pass all tests o

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-23 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Chris J. Breisch wrote: Check-0.9.12 seems to work out-of-the-box. Configure with --prefix=/usr. "make check" on check reports all tests passed, despite what appear to be some failures. The CHANGELOG says that this version should pass all tests on Cygwin. I've just subscribed to the mailing lis

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-21 Thread KIMURA Masaru
Hi, sorry for METOO(tm) notice. but check-0.9.10 is totally broken on cygwin. http://sourceforge.net/p/check/bugs/88/ one of following should apply ASAP IMHO. * remove 0.9.10 and stick 0.9.8 * remove 0.9.10 and bump 0.9.11 or later Peace, 2014-04-22 5:41 GMT+09:00 waterlan : > Chris J. Bre

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-21 Thread waterlan
Chris J. Breisch schreef op 2014-04-17 20:32: Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. I think that Cygwin should also switch to man-db. man-db is much better in handlin

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-19 Thread Erwin Waterlander
op 17-04-14 20:32, Chris J. Breisch schreef: Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. I think that Cygwin should also switch to man-db. man-db is much better in handling

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-17 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. I think that Cygwin should also switch to man-db. man-db is much better in handling man pages in different encoding. Before man-db

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-15 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: The "relocation truncated to fit" gcc error message on 64 bit systems is a red herring. It's in fact just what it says, there's an undefined symbol. Off the top of my head I don't know where ck_assert_failed is defined, probably some library, but the leading underscore i

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-14 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 14 10:24, Chris J. Breisch wrote: I downloaded and built the latest version of check, and it seems to work much better. I still have issues with libpipelines tests. It appears that there is a 32/64-bit issue somewhere. I'm using Cygwin x64. Many of the tests fail w

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 14 10:24, Chris J. Breisch wrote: > Erwin Waterlander wrote: > >Op 14-3-2014 13:58 Chris J. Breisch schreef: > >> > >> > >>There's also a check 0.9.12 from January of this year. > >> > >>It appears to me that we should upgrade check to at least 0.9.11, as > >>I'm unconvinced that the current

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-14 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Op 14-3-2014 15:24 Chris J. Breisch schreef: Erwin Waterlander wrote: Op 14-3-2014 13:58 Chris J. Breisch schreef: There's also a check 0.9.12 from January of this year. It appears to me that we should upgrade check to at least 0.9.11, as I'm unconvinced that the current version is working.

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-14 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Erwin Waterlander wrote: Op 14-3-2014 13:58 Chris J. Breisch schreef: There's also a check 0.9.12 from January of this year. It appears to me that we should upgrade check to at least 0.9.11, as I'm unconvinced that the current version is working. It was in October when I tried. I also coul

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-14 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Op 14-3-2014 13:58 Chris J. Breisch schreef: Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. I think that Cygwin should also switch to man-db. man-db is much better in handling m

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-14 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. I think that Cygwin should also switch to man-db. man-db is much better in handling man pages in different encoding. Before man-db