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From: | "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> |
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Subject: | RE: Missing dependencies and Cygwin |
Date: | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:10:43 +0100 |
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On 21 August 2007 16:53, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > this is more like an observation an not a problem: in the past I > noticed some third party applications compiled against Cygwin that > wouldn't because of missing dependencies/DLLs. This was quite obvious > as I got a big pop-up saying something like "cannot find cygwhatever- > x.y.dll". Then I could look for the package containing the DLL and > everything was fine. > > This seems to have changed as nowadays applications just silently > return without any visible error. I have to run "strace app" to see > the same error I used to see without strace. Or you could check for exit code 53 in the shell (as per this morning's previous message on the subject...) > Is there some kind of "API change" or is it mere coincidence? It was deliberate. Kinda messes up scripts and cron-jobs if they pop up requesters that have to be clicked away by human intervention before they can continue. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/
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