X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:55:26 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libtool/libltdl7}-2.2.7a-10 Message-ID: <20090317145526.GA12457@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <89694.8915.qm@web25006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <49BFAD95.4000709@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49BFAD95.4000709@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) 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 Mar 17 14:03, Dave Korn wrote: > I noticed that the output from 'file' has changed recently, e.g.: > > /bin $ file -L /bin/ls.exe > /bin/ls.exe: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (console) Intel 80386 32-bit > > Maybe this will help? Or perhaps something similar elsewhere. Libtool uses > file in several ways to help it decide what it's going to build. > > > /bin $ diff -pu libtool.orig libtool > --- libtool.orig 2009-03-15 23:19:29.500000000 +0000 > +++ libtool 2009-03-15 23:21:14.906250000 +0000 > @@ -3273,6 +3273,7 @@ func_win32_libid () > *executable*) # but shell scripts are "executable" too... > case $win32_fileres in > *MS\ Windows\ PE\ Intel*) > + *PE*\ *MS\ Windows\ *Intel*) > win32_libid_type="x86 DLL" I'm wondering how the original expression was supposed to work even with older file(1) versions: $ file-4.21 /bin/bash /bin/bash: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (console) Intel 80386 32-bit That doesn't match "*MS\ Windows\ PE\ Intel*" as far as I can see. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/