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On Apr  9 12:38, david sastre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.
> This also solves another recent mystery (for me):
> why I have unable to properly use another locally built program:
> 
> $ cygcheck /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd
>  -> C:\cygwin\usr\local\sbin\..\stow\lighttpd-1.4.26\sbin\lighttpd.exe
> C:\cygwin\usr\local\sbin\..\stow\lighttpd-1.4.26\sbin\lighttpd.exe
>   C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\cyglightcomp.dll  C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll
>     C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>           C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
>           C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll
>   C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll
>   C:\cygwin\bin\cygfam-0.dll
>   C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre-0.dll
>   C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl-0.9.8.dll
> cygcheck: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\cyglightcomp.dll is a symlink instead of a DLL
> 
> Not to mention the whole list of modules, also built as DLLs...
> 
> And -this is going to re-scope the subject- is there a way to
> circumvent this limitation?
> Other than pointing --prefix to /usr/local/ rather than
> /usr/local/stow/package, not to lose
> stow's little advantage to manage software as (pseudo)packages.
> I mean, if I want to use this version (1.4.26) of lighttpd (BTW,
> enhanced with IPV6, SSL and some other stuff -yet to test, though), am
> I suppossed to build a standard cygwin package for this
> to work?

Not necessarily.  Just add the path to your DLLs to $PATH.


Corinna

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