After trying to compile cygwin from scratch, I've come to the conclusion that opening up popup windows that require human interaction for system events is well-nigh intolerable, and I'm hoping that something can be done to fix it.
Figure - I'm installing gettext, and configure is doing a bunch of checks on my system. It tries to find libICE, which is not installed, and isn't even a fatal error in configuring gettext. So - instead of going on to the next statement silently, I get a button that I need to press in order to continue telling me of my 'error'. And hence stopping the configure process in its middle. How am I supposed to automate anything with this behavior? I don't want a cron job silently failing and instead of sending out a window that someone needs to click - and hence delaying a page being sent - I want the window to go away automatically and the page to be sent showing error. Given that when I run processes in strace this behaviour seems to go away suggests that this isn't something inherent in windows and is fixable. So - is there a standard way to fix this? Ed -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
