Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?
mwoehlke
mwoehlke@tibco.com
Wed Aug 9 18:38:00 GMT 2006
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>> I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes
>> to cygwin.patches?
>
> No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the
> winsup hierarchy. The first line of printf(3) says "NEWLIB" when
> I type "man 3 printf" so that's where a man page patch should go.
Ok, that's what I kind-of thought... Hmm, shame on the newlib folks for
having such a poorly-up-to-date manpage. :-) Anyway, I guess this means
that gmane.comp.lib.newlib will suffice?
(But... this means what? If the newlib folks don't like it, Cygwin is
just stuck with a /wrong/ manpage?)
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