Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-03-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Olly Betts wrote: Does the cygwin packaging chooser have the concept of dependencies? Yes. I've only used it briefly once some time ago, and I can't remember much about it. But if it does, then libtool should really depend on file. The official libtool package for cygwin (e.g. the one you

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-03-04 Thread Olly Betts
On 2006-02-24, Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olly Betts wrote: >> I've only used it briefly once some time ago, and I can't remember >> much about it. But if it does, then libtool should really depend on >> file. > > The official libtool package for cygwin (e.g. the one you get if yo

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-03-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Olly Betts wrote: > I don't think there's an obvious dependency cygwin could add to help > this (unless perhaps something rather arbitrary like making 'make' > depend on 'file'). So libtool (or rather packages it generates) > probably does need to cope with file not being installed (or perhaps >

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-02-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Olly Betts wrote: > Does the cygwin packaging chooser have the concept of dependencies? > I've only used it briefly once some time ago, and I can't remember > much about it. But if it does, then libtool should really depend on > file. Yes, it does, and that is a much better way of handling this.

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-02-22 Thread Olly Betts
On 2006-02-18, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If libtool currently displays somewhat degraded or broken behavior > without 'file' Currently it's somewhat broken, but it sounds like it'll be patched at some point and become somewhat degraded. > then it would be a good idea to at least

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-02-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > The user who reported this to me says that cygwin doesn't come with > > file by default either (he'd installed it very recently, so I guess > > he probably has the latest release). I'm a little suprised by this, > > but don't have cygwin myself so I can't check if this

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-02-17 Thread Olly Betts
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:12:58PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > 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

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-02-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Olly Betts wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:55:58PM CET: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:12:58PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > 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

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-02-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
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 ther

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-02-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
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 an

Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-02-14 Thread Olly Betts
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. A user reported a problem trying to build my libtool-ed project on cygwin. The problem turned out to be that cygwin apparently doesn'