From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Please include 'file' in the base category.
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111122184101.GX21190@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ECBADA7.9070301@lysator.liu.se>
On Nov 22 15:11, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm following up on an issue discussed on the Libtool list [1]. Basically,
> Libtool requires 'file' to be installed and breaks if it is not, and
> correctly so since 'file' is part of the POSIX base since issue 7 [2, at
> the bottom].
>
> The fact that the Libtool package in Cygwin requires 'file' is not enough
> as a casual user building some libtoolized package unexpectedly has to make
> sure 'file' is installed.
>
> So, please add 'file' to the Cygwin 'base' category, moving us one small
> step closer to the POSIX heaven.
Heaven is (almost) here. The file package is in Base now.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 18:41 UTC|newest]
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2011-11-22 18:41 Peter Rosin
2011-11-22 18:47 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2011-11-22 20:11 ` Peter Rosin
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