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From: Jani Tiainen <redetin AT luukku DOT com>
Subject: Re: Gnome libs and libresolv
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:26:36 +0200
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote:
> 
> 
>>I found out that many ported gnome libs are dependant to libresolv,
>>unfortunately I was unable to find one.. Any hints where I could get
>>that one for Cygwin?
> 
> 
> Can't fault you, as a package search for "libresolv" returns nothing.
> Had you tried searching for "resolv.h", however, you'd've found that you
> need to install the "minires-devel" package.  The minires-devel
> postinstall script creates a symlink from /usr/lib/libminires.dll.a to
> /usr/lib/libresolv.a.
> 	Igor
> P.S. I wonder if there's a way to create manifests of files/symlinks
> potentially created by postinstall scripts, to be used in package
> searches?

Well, since I don't personally need resolv.h (it just something needed 
to link in gnome packages) I couldn't even guess..

But it's very obvious.. I think there is lot to improve with package 
management in Cygwin, since these kind of a guestions would never appear 
due properly handled dependencies.

-- 

Jani Tiainen


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