Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system

Tue Jul 1 20:47:00 GMT 2014

Chris,
So (I'm talking to you as if you are the maintainer of man-db....(are
you?)) mandb sounds like the man system Debian uses, where (at least a
few years ago) the whatis database is created by invoking "mandb -C."
Testing this - "mandb" alone creates the databases, even though there
is a "-c" argument to"mandb," which I am running at this moment.
"mandb -c" is emitting errors as it runs, "can't open," "bad symlink,"
"whatis parse for xxxxxx failed," etc.
Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files
created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb?
Keith
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Chris J. Breisch <chris.ml@breisch.org> wrote:
> 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 Has "makewhatis" been superseded by something else?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 man has been replaced by man-db, which does not have a makewhatis.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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> Chris J. Breisch
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