Re: PostInstallLast addons?

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Robin Bowes schrieb:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 06:19:07PM -0700, Lex Ein wrote:
> > > "Cygwin Setup - Finish
> > >
> > > Create icons    Have setup create icons for easy access to the Cygwin 
> > > environment.    [ ] Create icon on _Desktop    [ ] Add icon to _Start 
> > > Menu
> > > Optional tasks - (may take many minutes!)
> > >    [ ] Build database (makewhatis) of man page short descriptions for
> > >    'whatis' & 'apropos'.
> > >    [ ] Build database (updatedb) of file names for 'locate'.
> > >
> > > Display README information at exit.    [ ] Display 
> > > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ directory of README files.
> >
> > I think that's a very good idea.  It would need to be conditional on the
> > existence of man and, I guess, find, though.
>
> In the context of some of the earlier posts in this thread, can I 
> suggest that the wording is a little less daunting to those not familiar 
> with nuix/cygwin. OK, so "Build database (makewhatis) of man page short 
> descriptions for 'whatis' & 'apropos'" may be technically correct, but 
> wouldn't something like this be more "helpful":
>
>   Optional tasks - (may take many minutes!)
>     [ ] Build help index (used by 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands)
>     [ ] Build file index (used by 'locate' command)

      [ ] Update help index (used by 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands)
      [ ] Update file index (used by 'locate' command)

But all this would a non-issue if we would create these new commands or 
functionality. Then no setup changes would be needed.
* updatewhatis which gets the filelist of the new man files.
* updatedb which should accept a new argument for the package MANIFEST
  to be merged into. Easier just a removal <MANIFEST> and add <MANIFEST>
  option.

On unix it's a non-issue because they have faster forks and esp.
faster filesystems.

$ time makewhatis

real    16m6.209s
user    7m56.942s
sys     2m38.845s

$ time updatedb
/usr/bin/find: /.ssh: Permission denied
/usr/bin/find: Fehler in /etc/mtab: /a.: No such file or directory

real    2m22.452s
user    0m0.674s
sys     0m0.636s

BTW, a nice locate bug eh. algorithmic issue (problematic trigram):

$ locate xx
/bin/cygdb_cxx-3.1.dll
/bin/cygdb_cxx-4.1.dll
/bin/cygdb_cxx-4.2.dll
/bin/cyggmpxx-3.dll
/bin/xxd.exe

$ which /bin/xxd.exe
/bin/xxd.exe: Command not found.

$ ls /bin/??x.exe
/bin/osx.exe  /bin/ptx.exe  /bin/rdx.exe  /bin/tex.exe  /bin/upx.exe

But I'm just too busy right now for this. I have to bring out a new 
release and search for another libtool bug.
Besides the pet cygwin projects.
--
Reini Urban
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