perl man pages not working.

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 5 01:12:00 GMT 2012


On 9/4/2012 4:07 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed the perl man pages via setup.exe, but they don't work:
>
> $ man perl
> No manual entry for perl
>
> It seems they are not there, while setup.exe says I have installed
> perl_manpages version 5.14.2-3.
>
> $ ls /usr/share/man/*/perl*
> ls: cannot access /usr/share/man/*/perl*: No such file or directory
>
> Also a reinstall via setup.exe does not help.

The man pages are there.  See the list of those installed here:

<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=perl_manpages%2Fperl_manpages-5.14.2-3&grep=perl_manpages>

But it does look like there are some key ones missing in 5.14.2 (such
as perl.1).

-- 
Larry

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