Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:23:57 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: David Starks-Browning cc: Teun Burgers , Subject: Re: libtool 20030216: problem recognizing import libraries In-Reply-To: <813-Fri07Mar2003201639+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, David Starks-Browning wrote: > On Friday 7 Mar 03, Teun Burgers writes: > > I've found the culprit. I installed the perl LWP module which > > installs a HEAD script that fetches the header of an URL. > > On unix HEAD and head are different but on cygwin having > > both HEAD and head.exe along the path causes a problem... > > Would CYGWIN=check_case:strict solve that? > > David FYI, in my case it made the error more apparent (something like "/usr/bin/tail: no such file or directory"), but no less cryptic. The temporary fix is to rename /bin/HEAD to /bin/HEAD.pl (along with the other two scripts, just for consistency). If it ever gets accepted into libwww, it could be a permanent fix as well. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/