X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: RE: Suggestion for run (with patch) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:15:12 +0100 Message-ID: <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8B02F8FE44@exchange35.fed.cclrc.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <461AAA69.70322D19@dessent.net> References: <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8B02F8FE34@exchange35.fed.cclrc.ac.uk> <20070409145533.GA8977@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8B02F8FE3E@exchange35.fed.cclrc.ac.uk> <461AAA69.70322D19@dessent.net> From: "Adye, TJ \(Tim\)" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l39LEsNj003815 Brian Dessent wrote on 09 April 2007 22:05: > > If you really want a compromise solution, you could modify > run to not depend on cygwin1.dll at link-time but instead > LoadLibrary() it at runtime, and if that fails fall back to > whatever the native version would have done. Thus you get a > single executable that understands posix paths if the DLL is > in the PATH and still allows to you "run > c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" (or whatever it is that you're > currently doing) if the DLL is not in the PATH. Though that > itself may cause confusion... That's a nice idea, but I suspect it would indeed cause more confusion than any gain - especially when we're only talking about a 50k executable. Imagine the program silently behaving differently if you change the PATH. A nice "cygwin1.dll was not found" error message is usually preferable :-) I hope that a separately-named (small) executable, perhaps installed elsewhere, will be acceptable. Tim. =========================== cut here ============================ Tim Adye T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye BaBar/Atlas Groups, Particle Physics Dept, Rutherford Appleton Lab -- 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/