On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 16:41 +0100, Peter Rosin wrote: > I happened to look in the help2man package and found that it > contained a file cygintl-8.dll. Here are the first few files > in the help2man package: > > Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011 0 usr/ > Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011 0 usr/bin/ > Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011 17540 usr/bin/help2man > Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011 0 usr/lib/ > Thu Dec 29 07:25:33 2011 0 usr/lib/help2man/ > Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011 0 usr/lib/help2man/bindtextdomain.so -> > cygintl-8.dll > Thu Dec 29 07:25:33 2011 7694 usr/lib/help2man/cygintl-8.dll
This is necessary in order to make help2man's LD_PRELOAD hack work. bindtextdomain.so is meant to override a couple of gettext functions (in order to use uninstalled message catalogs), but that won't work on Cygwin unless the DLL names match, which necessitated adding pass-through wrappers to the other functions as well. I suggest looking at my patches if you want to understand exactly what's happening here. > It's not good to have two different paths to the same dll, right? Since the LD_PRELOAD hack will only be used briefly and rarely, and the real cygintl-8.dll is already loaded as a dependency of sh/bash, I don't see any practical problem here; I certainly didn't encounter any when testing this hack. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
