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Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:40:43 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Hi Olly,
* 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.
> A user reported a problem trying to build my libtool-ed project on cygwin.
> The problem turned out to be that cygwin apparently doesn't install the
> "file" utility by default, but libtool tries to use it without checking
> if it is available (in func_win32_libid it seems). I'm using libtool 1.5.22.
> Here's the output in question:
*snip*
> If "file" isn't available on cygwin by default, I feel it would be better to
> say so rather than to say that a (probably valid) library failed the file
> magic
> test...
Yes.
> Also, I have AC_DISABLE_STATIC in configure.ac, so I'm slightly suprised that
> libtool falls back to building a static library here. Is that supposed to
> happen?
Yes, I think that is by design: if libtool doesn't know how to build a
shared lib, it should fall back to what it knows instead. At least that
seems to me one common reasoning in some libtool constructs.
Cheers,
Ralf
- Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed, Olly Betts, 2006/02/14
- Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed,
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed, Bob Friesenhahn, 2006/02/14
- Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed, Olly Betts, 2006/02/17
- Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/02/17
- Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed, Brian Dessent, 2006/02/18
- Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed, Olly Betts, 2006/02/22
- Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed, Brian Dessent, 2006/02/23