Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > With 1.7, there is no such issue; make manifypods builds OOTB. So any > such workaround would have to be caught in the cygport postinstall > stage, maybe in __prepman(). But I'm not sure that it would be at all > nece

Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-23 Thread Brian Dessent
"Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" wrote: > Am I missing something here? Apparently my understanding of FAT is wrong then. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Brian Dessent wrote: > Oh. I see. That's unfortunate. But I don't understand something: I'm > looking at the documentation for ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin which claims to > contain platform-specific overrides for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, one of > which is rep

Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-23 Thread Brian Dessent
"Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" wrote: > It's not a case of using the same workaround. With 1.5, the make > manifypods target would first build the PODs, then create the manpages, > and would fail when trying to create a manpage containing '::' (as it > did not use a managed mount). gtk2-perl.cygclass w

Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Brian Dessent wrote: > 3) Perpetuate the s/::/./ workaround in Cygport so that manpages > continue to be generated with '.'. It's not a case of using the same workaround. With 1.5, the make manifypods target would first build the PODs, then create

Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-22 Thread Brian Dessent
"Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" wrote: > 1) Completely remove the /::/./ substitution in both man and perl for 1.7; > 2) Have man look for both '.' and '::'. How about 3) Perpetuate the s/::/./ workaround in Cygport so that manpages continue to be generated with '.'. Rationale: Support for : in filenam

man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Currently man(1) and perl work around Cygwin's inability to handle illegal DOS filename characters by substituting '.' for '::', IOW: $ man ExtUtils::Depends will display ExtUtils.Depends.3pm, which is created by perl on Cygwin instead of ExtUtils: