From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4215 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2011 18:41:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 2402 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Nov 2011 18:41:18 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:41:04 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6744B2C0486; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:41:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:47:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please include 'file' in the base category. Message-ID: <20111122184101.GX21190@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4ECBADA7.9070301@lysator.liu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ECBADA7.9070301@lysator.liu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00348.txt.bz2 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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