It's mostly resource I'd say. Keep in mind however that Cygwin has it's own C runtime and there's not necessarily a 1-to-1 mapping of C runtime functions in Cygwin to man pages that come with libc, etc. Still, if you're interesting in contributing a package which contains any or all of the "missing" man pages, I expect the community would be willing to have them. ;-) Check out the Cygwin web site for more information about contributing to Cygwin if you're interested.
Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 06:06 PM 2/20/2002, Brett Porter wrote: >Is there any reason this isn't part of the cygwin >distro.? I would have thought they went along with >libc, etc. > >I can think of a couple of reasons: size, extra >maintenance time. Both fair enough. But I wonder if it >isn't a hassle if it might be a good idea. I remember >back to my DJGPP days where there was a source, binary >and doco package - perhaps there is scope to do the >same with Cygwin (so setup has a doco option as well >as a source option). > >What are the thoughts on this? > >- Brett > > > At 02:33 PM 2/20/2002, Alan Huang wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > May I ask that how do I obtain most other > > "man" pages that exist in > > >Linux but not in Cygwin when you install Cygwin? > > I'm especially looking for > > >"man" documents for most C functions. eg. > > gethostbyname() I'm sorry that I > > >might be asking stupid, newbie questions, but I > > really couldn't find the > > >solution to it... > > > > > > Pull them from your favorite GNU mirror and untar > > them into a directory that > > man looks at. > > >http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies >- Vote for your nominees in our online Oscars pool. > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
