X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=lzHCx HTunpvwm34n89WoJKOH3VoOXccwZIzAGKcaO+dxPrS5C0/AY8m4rlfV8BZUddMkx ERTr0vItCQgKJ7TZ5HtCBQxiXcejopnxFANTZyJFBYcaXVANl50mMPqJUHmjmGed B4q9I4T3kD0YtrIWKv2t//Qai1tX3oSvtOabVM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=default; bh=auYUHkHxEyT NePg1gqehHYj1zQw=; b=WLDCDu+L0mv/xTYhq7HopX91zl8PWVPVBb6HNV7neU1 9oOcQiyHCefAlY9csVfsXqwEVbTfkKYxBVc4iov96gJ0Qvq7fwjvkuh+4S3ilL8t pKs4bPul8t5flmbvzdjqeshWiS1HqbPpoS3WFjqa4O2BFtPcPXHMsQKN9sgtfZy8 = Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Street, henry, School, forged X-HELO: treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: False negative from cygcheck python27.dll (Windows) References: <20160901144346 DOT GB2201 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> From: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:53:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20160901144346.GB2201@calimero.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Thu\, 1 Sep 2016 16\:43\:46 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1012 (Gnus v5.10.12) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.60, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Sep 1 14:39, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> This is not new, I don't think, but I thought I'd check if it's a known >> problem. >> >> Running Cygwin 2.5.2 on Windows 10 (which just forced the Anniversary >> update on me, various minor irritations to be overcome), > > Be glad, be *really* glad, you don't run W10 Enterprise and use a > WSUS server for updates... Heh. >> I see the >> following: >> >> > cygcheck python27.dll >> Found: C:\WINDOWS\system32\python27.dll >> ... >> cygcheck: track_down: could not find MSVCR90.dll >> >> But not surprisingly /c/Python27/python runs just fine, and both strace >> and depends [1] report that the MSVCR90 dependency is satisfied from >> >> C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9247_none_08e394a1a83e212f\msvcr90.dll >> >> Just a minor irritation, but I'm curious if there's an underlying >> reason, or it's a bug. > > There's a reason and it's that WinSxS stuff. It works with invisible > redirections so the path itself is not in the usual DLL search path. > We could add the WinSXS dir and all subdirs, but is it worth it? Hmm, maybe on request (i.e. another flag) -- given that there may be multiple subdirectories of WinSxS, knowing which one is getting used can be of real value in tricky situations... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple