Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
Chris J. Breisch
chris.ml@breisch.org
Tue Jul 1 19:26:00 GMT 2014
Keith Christian wrote:
> Yesterday, I updated my Cygwin install. I run "makewhatis" after
> every Cygwin update, and it's not there. "whatis" works, curious how
> its database is created and where it is stored.
>
> Has "makewhatis" been superseded by something else? Didn't find any
> references in the mailing list.
>
> Keith
>
man has been replaced by man-db, which does not have a makewhatis.
mandb -q has similar functionality.
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