Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/05/16:35:45
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:25:04PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>It is annoying that cygcheck exits with status 0, even if it could not find a file:
>
>$ cygcheck /bin/lilypond.exe
>C:/cygwin/bin/lilypond.exe
> C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
> C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
> C:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL
> C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.DLL
> C:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL
> C:/cygwin/bin\cygguile-12.dll
> C:/cygwin/bin\cygcrypt-0.dll
> C:/cygwin/bin\cygguile-ltdl-1.dll
> C:/cygwin/bin\cygintl-3.dll
> C:/cygwin/bin\cygiconv-2.dll
>Error: could not find cygkpathsea-4.dll
>$ echo $?
>0
>$ cygcheck none
>Error: could not find none
>$ echo $?
>0
>
>This makes exit status worthless when trying to use cygcheck to verify if
>an existing file has any broken dependencies (a la the bash upgrade
>scenarios being discussed on cygwin-apps). I tried to prepare a patch,
>but returning EXIT_FAILURE from main() still produced a 0 exit status,
>so it might be that the magic that makes cygcheck know about
>cygwin1.dll while still being a Windows app needs fixing, too.
This should be fixed in the current snapshot.
cgf
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