From: MARSHALL K. <Kei...@to...> - 2004-06-22 10:20:34
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> Everytime I try to use manuals in mingw I receive a message of missing > configuration file. Indeed, after I have checked it, I discovered it > really is missing. But how to configure man in mingw. > > I looked at cygwin man config and it looks quite large and has been > generated by some tool. I suppose it is not a good idea to do it manually... > > Any ideas please :-) Where did you get man.exe for MinGW? AFAIK, there is no officially supported implementation. That said, I have succeeded in getting man-1.5m2, (as currently used by most recent GNU/Linux distributions, I think), to build and run under MSYS. It did take a fair bit of tinkering with the source; it definitely will *not* build OOTB with MinGW! I have offered to make my patched implementation available, as a MinGW buildable source package, and Earnie has accepted. However, before I do so, I would like some additional time to iron out a few of the creases -- currently, it takes too much effort to build, to be suitable for general release. BTW, man on its own is not enough to read man pages -- you also need a working implementation of nroff/troff and a pager. MSYS' own implementation of less is fine for the pager, but you do need to get and build nroff/troff -- I use GNU Troff, from ftp://groff.ffii.org/pub/groff (version 1.19.1 builds OOTB with MinGW, for me anyway -- YMMV). HTH, Keith. |