X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4539013F.7080707@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:02:55 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Dependency error for package gsl References: <0706F4CDC397BF4483877BFDA8DBD3A50768EF76@kjsdemucshrexc1.eu.pm.com> In-Reply-To: <0706F4CDC397BF4483877BFDA8DBD3A50768EF76@kjsdemucshrexc1.eu.pm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Demmer, Thomas wrote: > Hi all, > the setup.ini lacks the requirement for "lapack". > lapack provides cygblas.dll, which is required for more or > less all programs using gsl. > > On a side note: I have installed gsl, gsl-dev and gsl-doc, and > can compile and link programs using cyggsl-0.dll, but on execution > they silently die. Is this the normal behaviour? I'd expect some kind > of error message on startup. cygcheck however, reveals the dependency. If it dies because you're missing cygblas.dll, there is no standard error-reporting behavior imposed by Cygwin in these cases. It's application dependent. So feel free to patch-away to get the behavior you want with your favorite applications. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/