package cygwin-d-... case sensitivity problems --

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-06-19 20:45, Brian Inglis wrote:
> 
> On 2019-06-18 11:46, Townsend, Paul wrote:
>> The cygwin-doc-... package has several problems in at least the 
>> /usr/share/man/man3 directory where multiple file names differ only in case, 
>> i.e., the tar file contains, in this order,
>>   usr/share/man/man3/jN.3.gz
>>   usr/share/man/man3/jn.3.gz
>> The jN.3.gz file contains the roff text and the jn.3.gz file contains a roff 
>> .so directive pointing at jN.3.  The file that ends up in man3 is jn.3.gz
>> and jN.3.gz disappears.
>> The simplest solution would be to just remove jn.3.gz and similar .so files 
>> from the tarball.  This would at least allow the roff text files to exist.
>> FMI - where was the tarball created?  It certainly was not on a computer
>> with Windows and case insensitivity.
> 
> A lot of package maintainers work on Linux and test in Windows VMs.
> These conflicts should be picked up by the setup program tar extract.

As most if not all of the math library and docs are part of and shared with
newlib, most of the maintenance will be done in Linux, where these .so refs are
necessary.

The Cygwin doc packaging will have to patch this to avoid using the other cased
variants of any man pages which are symlinks or only contain .so refs: the only
file currently matching those criteria is jn.3.gz.

Anyone can fix this locally by extracting the newlib doc from your Cygwin
mirror's downloaded tar case sensitively to your Cygwin root as:
$ /bin/tar -xvf
...mirror/x86_64/release/cygwin/cygwin-doc/cygwin-doc-3.0.7-1.tar.xz
usr/share/man/man3/jN.3.gz -C /

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