On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:18:31 -0500 (GMT-05:00), Steve Munson wrote: > From the info dir file in /usr/share/info, you can't get to the info > files for libc or libm, because their entries are wrong. The file > cygwin-1.5.12-1/newlib/libc/libc.texinfo in the source distribution > for cygwin-1.5.12-1 contains the following lines near the top of the > file: > > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > * libc:: The ANSI C library. > END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > > This incorrectly instructs info to look for a node named "libc", > which doesn't exist. The correct entry would be: > > * libc: (libc). The ANSI C library. > > This tells info to look for the *file* libc.info. There is a similar > problem in cygwin-1.5.12-1/newlib/libm/libm.texinfo: > > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > * libm:: An ANSI-C conforming mathematical library. > END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > > This entry, of course, should read: > > * libm: (libm). An ANSI-C conforming mathematical library. >
Thanks Steve. Problem 1 is that these files come from newlib. Problem 2 is that they're in both cygwin and cygwin-doc. When did they get back into the "cygwin" package? -- 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/
