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Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed
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Brian Dessent |
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Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed |
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Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:11:23 -0800 |
Olly Betts wrote:
> I don't think there's an obvious dependency cygwin could add to help
> this (unless perhaps something rather arbitrary like making 'make'
> depend on 'file'). So libtool (or rather packages it generates)
> probably does need to cope with file not being installed (or perhaps
> just check for it in configure and get the user to install it). I think
> for now I'll just add such a check to my project's configure.
In that case adding 'file' to the 'Devel' category might help, since
people seem to like to add whole categories. Although a configure check
or some kind of fallback would be best.
Brian