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> <00ed01c83da1$2b3483b0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Subject: RE: Need help with Perl/Tk Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:20:26 -0000 Message-ID: <004001c83e3a$f18f1310$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 14 December 2007 03:12, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> DynaLoader is just spitting out the bog-standard canned error message >> that perror() returns for ENOENT. > Oh I totally understand that. I guess what I'm saying is - could it be a > wee bit more, ahem, helpful! >> 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. > But it doesn't, and that's essentially the point. Well, PTC I'm sure. But there's a limited use to tweaking the error message text if it still can't tell you /which/ file was missing, and that would mean adding a whole bunch of PE-reading functionality to do it right. 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/