X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <3551E1877C7A4F9EA99799CED176646E@desktop2> <00e601c83d9a$0cf54e40$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Subject: RE: Need help with Perl/Tk Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:59:37 -0000 Message-ID: <00ed01c83da1$2b3483b0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: 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 On 13 December 2007 15:30, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> On 13 December 2007 14:55, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>>> (When it comes to DynaLoader you gotta learn to read the fine print >>>> and make intuitive leaps :-) >>> Yes but it did indeed state "No such file or directory...". Would it >>> be that hard for DynaLoader.pm to mention exactly which file it was >>> looking for? >> Yes, it would, because that information is not exposed to the >> application; you just call LoadLibrary, and if you get a file not >> found error back, there's no way to determine if it was the library >> DLL itself or one of the dependent DLLs that windows couldn't find. > Well then how about changing the error message to something as > nonsensical as "Unable to find this library, or a library on which this > one depends..." DynaLoader is just spitting out the bog-standard canned error message that perror() returns for ENOENT. There's certainly no reason why it couldn't look out for that particular errno and issue a more detailed explanation, instead of relying solely on the default. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/