| Ticket UUID: | 0ef68e99e1cb4a0c7deaa794380efd336cc2ff37 | ||
| Title: | "::" in manual page names is replaced with "_" on installation, "man oo::class" does not work | ||
| Type: | Bug | Created on: | 2026-10-20 16:52:44 |
| Submitter: | serhiy.storchaka | Assigned to: | jan.nijtmans |
| Subsystem: | 53. Configuration and Build Tools | Severity: | Minor |
| Priority: | 5 Medium | Last modified: | 2026-10-27 14:33:42 |
| Status: | Closed | Closed by: | jan.nijtmans |
| Resolution: | Fixed | Closed on: | 2026-10-27 14:33:42 |
| Version: | 9.1 | ||
| Description: | ||||
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unix/installManPage replaces :: in the names of the installed manual pages with _, so man oo::class does not find the page (it is installed as oo_class.n), although apropos lists oo::class (n). This affects 14 pages: oo::*, tcl::prefix, platform::shell, etc. The same issue in Tk is Tk ticket 3604346fff. Proposed fix in branch man-colon-names ([3afe85f6ef]): keep : in the names, and install the pages under the old names with _ too, so man oo_class still works. Tested with man-db on Linux and under MSYS2 on Windows, where : in file names is mapped to a private-use character. | ||||
| User Comments: | ||||
jan.nijtmans added on 2026-10-27 14:33:42:
Fixed in [ec1b6368a6|trunk], core-9-0-branch and core-8-6-branch Many thanks! | ||||