On Jul 20 16:04, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > On 7/20/2010 4:55 AM, David Sastre wrote: > >2010/7/20, Lee D. Rothstein<l1ee...@veritech.com>: > >> from 'cygcheck -c': > >> > >> Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Action.3pm.gz from package > >>perl-ming > >> Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::BinaryData.3pm.gz from package > >>perl-ming > >> Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Bitmap.3pm.gz from package > >>perl-ming > <SNIP> > >My guess is that colons in manpages' filenames are problematic for > >cygcheck, a pure windows app, because colons are forbiden in windows' > >filenames. > >[...] > Corinna, > > Is this another problem with cygcheck and Cygwin 1.7?
The above explanation is correct. Cygwin 1.7 allows colons in filenames(*) but cygcheck uses simple ANSI MSVCRT functions to check for file existance. These functions are naturally not able to access files using special characters. I checked in a fix to cygcheck which should rectify the problem. It now uses a native NT function to check for a file. Corinna (*) http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
