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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:52:23 -0400
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Subject: Re: path bug in cygcheck?
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In-Reply-To: <2181-Thu14Sep2000173707+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>; from starksb@ebi.ac.uk on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:37:07PM +0100

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:37:07PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Thursday 14 Sep 00, DJ Delorie writes:
>> 
>> > I would say this is a defect, albeit a minor one, and perhaps not
>> > worth fixing.
>> 
>> In cygcheck, *all* bugs are worth fixing.  This is one of the few
>> programs that absolutely *must* do the right thing, because we use it
>> to diagnose user problems.
>
>In that case, I think that cygcheck.cc will require two separate path
>lists, one for searching programs and one for searching dll's.  The
>current problem stems from using the same data structure to serve both
>purposes.
>
>I would volunteer to have a go at this, but it would be some weeks
>before I could get started.

Since cygcheck has been like this for some time, I think we can afford
to wait.

If someone else wants to step in, though, please notify us here.

cgf