From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14584 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2011 14:12:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 14575 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Nov 2011 14:12:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (HELO mail.lysator.liu.se) (130.236.254.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:11:51 +0000 Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6B640009 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:11:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.150] (h57n3fls301o1095.telia.com [81.230.178.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1473E40005 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:11:48 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4ECBADA7.9070301@lysator.liu.se> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:41:00 -0000 From: Peter Rosin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Please include 'file' in the base category. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00347.txt.bz2 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. Cheers, Peter [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2011-11/msg00024.html [2] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/file.html -- 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