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| From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
| Subject: | Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed |
| Date: | Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:12:58 -0600 (CST) |
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Olly Betts wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:06:52PM CET:I tried to search for previous references to this issue, but it's pretty much impossible to usefully search for "file"! Sorry if this is rehashing old discussions.It's not really, but there is a very similar bug report and patch outstanding (which I temporarily forgot about): http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9231830&forum_id=5119 Probably the issue can be solved to not use `file' at all, but I'd still need to think about that.
At one time Cygwin used 'objdump' rather than 'file'. Later it was improved to use 'file' since file returns more accurate results. For MSYS/MinGW 'objdump' is still used because 'file' does not come with MSYS.
Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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