[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.9.4-2

[Henry S. Thompson]

Achim Gratz writes:

> The man-db package is re-released as 2.9.4-2, the latest upstream
> version.  This release works around a Windows bug that causes creation
> of a spurious directory %SystemDrive% in the Cygwin installation root.

Fails for me:

  >: man -k sasl
  man: /usr/bin/apropos: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

  >: gdb /usr/bin/man
  (gdb) ...
  (gdb) run -k sasl
  Starting program: /usr/bin/man -k sasl
  [New Thread 12608.0x3eac]
  [New Thread 12608.0x48f8]
  [New Thread 12608.0x279c]
  [New Thread 12608.0x1bd0]
  [New Thread 12608.0x4bd4]
  /usr/bin/man: /usr/bin/apropos: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

  >: gdb /usr/bin/apropos
  (gdb) run
  Starting program: /usr/bin/apropos
  [New Thread 17960.0x26ac]
  [New Thread 17960.0x26f0]
  [New Thread 17960.0x2600]
  [New Thread 17960.0x4d24]
  /usr/bin/whatis what?
  [Thread 17960.0x2600 exited with code 1]
  [Thread 17960.0x26f0 exited with code 1]
  [Thread 17960.0x43b4 exited with code 1]
  [Thread 17960.0x26ac exited with code 1]

  Program terminated with signal SIGHUP, Hangup.

  >: cygcheck -s /usr/bin/apropos
  H:\C64\bin\whatis.exe
    H:\C64\bin\cygmandb-2-9-4.dll
      H:\C64\bin\cygman-2-9-4.dll
        H:\C64\bin\cygwin1.dll
          C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll
            C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll
            C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
        H:\C64\bin\cygintl-8.dll
          H:\C64\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
        H:\C64\bin\cygpipeline-1.dll
      H:\C64\bin\cyggdbm-6.dll
        H:\C64\bin\cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll
  ...
  Windows 10 Professional Ver 10.0 Build 19044
  ...
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 3.2.0
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        Cygwin conv: 181
        API major: 0
        API minor: 340
        Shared data: 5
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 3
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Installations name: Installations
        Cygdrive default prefix:
        Build date:
        Shared id: cygwin1S5
  ...
  man-db                                 2.9.4-2                         OK
  
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