Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: mdssdev05.comp.pge.com: esp5 set sender to esp5 AT pge DOT com using -f Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:32:55 -0800 From: "Edward S. Peschko" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: popups upon library errors. Message-ID: <20040326033255.GA16421@mdssdev05.comp.pge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- 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/