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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jani Tiainen Subject: Re: Gnome libs and libresolv Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:26:36 +0200 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: kotivayla-129-197.tikkacom.fi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: > > >>I found out that many ported gnome libs are dependant to libresolv, >>unfortunately I was unable to find one.. Any hints where I could get >>that one for Cygwin? > > > Can't fault you, as a package search for "libresolv" returns nothing. > Had you tried searching for "resolv.h", however, you'd've found that you > need to install the "minires-devel" package. The minires-devel > postinstall script creates a symlink from /usr/lib/libminires.dll.a to > /usr/lib/libresolv.a. > Igor > P.S. I wonder if there's a way to create manifests of files/symlinks > potentially created by postinstall scripts, to be used in package > searches? Well, since I don't personally need resolv.h (it just something needed to link in gnome packages) I couldn't even guess.. But it's very obvious.. I think there is lot to improve with package management in Cygwin, since these kind of a guestions would never appear due properly handled dependencies. -- Jani Tiainen -- 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/