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Re: 1.5.12-1: documentation bug in lib[cm].texinfo
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at gmail dot com>
- To: Steve Munson <stevebm at sprynet dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:03:06 -0800
- Subject: Re: 1.5.12-1: documentation bug in lib[cm].texinfo
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- Reply-to: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at gmail dot com>
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:18:31 -0500 (GMT-05:00), Steve Munson wrote:
> From the info dir file in /usr/share/info, you can't get to the info
> files for libc or libm, because their entries are wrong. The file
> cygwin-1.5.12-1/newlib/libc/libc.texinfo in the source distribution
> for cygwin-1.5.12-1 contains the following lines near the top of the
> file:
>
> START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> * libc:: The ANSI C library.
> END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>
> This incorrectly instructs info to look for a node named "libc",
> which doesn't exist. The correct entry would be:
>
> * libc: (libc). The ANSI C library.
>
> This tells info to look for the *file* libc.info. There is a similar
> problem in cygwin-1.5.12-1/newlib/libm/libm.texinfo:
>
> START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> * libm:: An ANSI-C conforming mathematical library.
> END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>
> This entry, of course, should read:
>
> * libm: (libm). An ANSI-C conforming mathematical library.
>
Thanks Steve.
Problem 1 is that these files come from newlib.
Problem 2 is that they're in both cygwin and cygwin-doc. When did they
get back into
the "cygwin" package?
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