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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:32:55 -0800
From: "Edward S. Peschko" <esp5 AT pge DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: popups upon library errors.
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After trying to compile cygwin from scratch, I've come to the conclusion that 
opening up popup windows that require human interaction for system events is 
well-nigh intolerable, and I'm hoping that something can be done to fix it.

Figure - I'm installing gettext, and configure is doing a bunch of checks 
on my system.  It tries to find libICE, which is not installed, and isn't 
even a fatal error in configuring gettext.

So - instead of going on to the next statement silently, I get a button 
that I need to press in order to continue telling me of my 'error'. And hence
stopping the configure process in its middle.

How am I supposed to automate anything with this behavior? I don't want a 
cron job silently failing and instead of sending out a window that someone 
needs to click - and hence delaying a page being sent - I want the window
to go away automatically and the page to be sent showing error.

Given that when I run processes in strace this behaviour seems to go away
suggests that this isn't something inherent in windows and is fixable.
So - is there a standard way to fix this?

Ed

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