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Subject:	Re: Why is taskset still not in util-linux?
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Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2020 19:13:19 -0400
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On 3/21/2020 10:26 AM, Roumen Petrov wrote:
 > Eliot Moss wrote:
 >> So here's a thing, though I don't understand it:
 >>
 >> In addition the build/taskset.exe, there's a build/.libs/taskset.exe.
 >> If I install the latter in /usr/bin/.libs/taskset.exe, then /usr/bin/taskset
 >> works.  In fact, it seems that the version in .libs is the "real" program
 >> and /usr/bin/taskset is some kind of trampoline (?) to it?
 > Libtool wrapper is shell script on Unix/Linux and executable on Microsoft Windows OS. Goal of
 > "wrapper" is to prepare environment in the way that allows to run real executable without 
installation.
 > Project that creates just one executable is not the beast sample but think for a library project and
 > a bundle of tests (executable). All tests must load library from build tree.
 >
 >
 >>
 >> In fact, a stripped version of build/.libs/taskset installed in /usr/bin
 >> works just fine.  There must be some kind of build and install convention
 >> going on that I am not familiar with.  (I'm not familiar with a lot of
 >> these build processes, actually.)
 > I think that in some cases this executable has to be relinked. Definitely not on Microsoft Windows
 > OS. So on cygwin it is "final" executable.

Thanks - I start to get the picture.  What is odd is that 'cygport install'
puts the _wrapper_ into /usr/bin rather than the executable, and does not
install the exectable.  The wrapper just silently fails.  Now maybe if I built
the package (as if I were the package maintainer) and installed that with
cygwin's setup, I would get the right thing - not sure (and not 100% sure how
to do that).

Cheers - EM
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