On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 23:53, Christopher Li wrote: > > > > I cannot really see that it is a Gentoo specific problem, but > > who knows. > > I will try to get a CD of another distro somewhere, and get that on a > > box to test - currently work/whatnot just keeps me pretty tied up :( > > Another reason why I posted, is now that 2.6 is more widely > > used/tested, > > its not only me that gets this, but other users as well - thus I hoped > > that somebody with more time wanted to have a crack at it. > > I am not claiming it is a gentoo issue. I just want to duplicate > this bug with minimal damage to my box. > Yep, I know, I just 'clarified' it in case somebody was wondering. > > > > If it works fine (with a 2.6 kernel), I will go and bang my > > head against > > a wall, and shutup until I can make time to try and track > > this - if not, > > any ideas as to creating it outside the perl install (or > > rather the man > > page part of the install process) would be great. > > > > You can do a strace on the perl install, then grep for all > the file changes happen on that directory. There is a good > chance follow the strace log can duplicate the bug also. Yep, did that. I had a simple c program once that tried to simulate all file operations on that file, and the 'real' man page that gets installed. Did not have the same effect however. Might be that I was off by something. Don't have it however anymore, as it was some months before, just before I mailed the first time. Thanks, -- Martin Schlemmer
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