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Brian Dessent wrote:
> 3) Perpetuate the s/::/./ workaround in Cygport so that manpages
> continue to be generated with '.'.

It's not a case of using the same workaround.  With 1.5, the make
manifypods target would first build the PODs, then create the manpages,
and would fail when trying to create a manpage containing '::' (as it
did not use a managed mount).  gtk2-perl.cygclass would then catch the
error, and then proceed to use a similar procedure to generate the
manpages with a '.' instead.

With 1.7, there is no such issue; make manifypods builds OOTB.  So any
such workaround would have to be caught in the cygport postinstall
stage, maybe in __prepman().  But I'm not sure that it would be at all
necessary.

> Rationale: Support for : in filenames in 1.7 only works with local NTFS
> and remote NFS drives; local non-NTFS and remote samba volumes will
> fail.  For example, if recent list traffic is any indication, running
> Cygwin off a portable Flash drive is becoming a popular topic again with
> the /etc/fstab change, and most of those devices are formatted FAT.

Really?  I thought that was the rule for case-sensitivity, not illegal
chars:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-08/msg00079.html


Yaakov
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