I found that the "-s" option to makewhatis cannot take multiple sections. If you try to supply multiple sections, they are incorrectly interpreted as a manpath.
For example: % makewhatis -s '1 2' No such directory 2 You might wonder why anyone would ever want to use "-s". (A comment in the code says that it might be obsoleted soon.) I need to use "-s" because section 8c, containing imapd, is not supplied in the default section list. However, if I use "makewhatis -s 8c" alone, the whatis database loses information about all the other sections. I need to be able to run "makewhatis -s '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 n l 8c'". I looked into the source, and determined that there is a simple fix. The problem is caused by the use of $* in a 'for' loop to reference the command-line arguments. This causes any argument that contains multiple words to become multiple arguments. The "$@" construct is specifically designed to work around this: bash expands "$@" to a quoted word for every argument. Thus, changing line 71 from: for name in $* to: for name in "$@" solves the problem. This is based on a fresh download of the stable branch from redhat.com from a couple hours ago: % cygcheck -s Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Dec 09 18:01:59 2003 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 % cygcheck -c man Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status man 1.5j-2 OK I hope this is helpful. -Matt Carter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
