Hello Bruce, Thank you for the report. This is a known issue in 1.6c (broken makewhatis), I must admit I goofed up. The fix is in 1.6d yet to be released (I did not rush a release containing only that fix as downstream packagers added fixes of their own promptly, saving me the effort).
1.6d is meant to clear a number of outstanding bugs, and I am getting a bit perfectionist trying to address as many as I can, but it shall be released soon ;-) best -f On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:59 -1000, Bruce Jones wrote: > Version info: > > Windows XP Pro SP1 > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 > Man 1.5p-1 > > The makewhatis shell script generates an error message when $PWD contains a > space, e.g. "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/username" The message is: > > /usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 380: cd: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or > directory > > Apart from the message the script appears to execute correctly. > > Changing line 380 from 'cd $here' to 'cd "$here"' fixes the problem. > > man-1.6c/src/makewhatis.sh (from > http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/) contains the same problem in > line 394. > > I'm sending to the cygwin list also since it seems Windows systems are more > likely to have paths with embedded spaces. > > Regards, > Bruce > -- _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - http://www.lucifredi.com -- 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/
