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 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:12:05 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: popups upon library errors. Message-ID: <20040326091205.GF17229@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040326033255 DOT GA16421 AT mdssdev05 DOT comp DOT pge DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040326033255.GA16421@mdssdev05.comp.pge.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Mar 25 19:32, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > 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. Off the top of my head I would say, that's a problem in your environment. When the configury tests for existing libraries, it typically does that by trying to build a test application which uses a function from that lib. A library might consist of up to three files, a static lib, an import library for dynamic linking, and a DLL. By default, ld tries to link against the import library, so that the resulting application would use the DLL when started. On your system, the DLL is missing (or missing in $PATH, that's basically the same) but for some reason the import library exists. Linking the test application therefore succeeds, but the resulting application can't run, obviously. So, to rectify this problem, you should remove the import library from your system. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/