From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 23:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4feda8adde340b895d52bff99e989acf1130990.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c9bfe8e.1c69fb81.1096a.cb9f@mx.google.com>
On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 15:51 -0700, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:02:47, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > >>> mintty requires: bash cygwin
> > I remember some discussion that the cygwin dependency, which most
> > packages have, should not (or does not need to be) listed.
> > And in fact, mintty does not depend on bash. Why does cygport think so?
>
> Uh, Mintty definitely *does* depend on Bash, what makes you think it doesnt?
> As a simple test case, rename Bash and try to run Mintty. You get this:
>
> Failed to run '/bin/bash': No such file or directory
> /bin/bash: Exit 126.
"Only" if /bin/bash is your preferred shell. Granted, that's the
default, and what most users would want anyway, but that is not
strictly speaking a mintty dependency. As I mentioned in my response,
the auto-detected dependency on bash is from mintheme.
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Yaakov
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-27 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-16 9:35 Thomas Wolff
2019-03-16 14:01 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-24 14:51 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-24 15:57 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-24 16:24 ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-24 18:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-24 23:36 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-25 8:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-25 18:12 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-27 20:02 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-27 20:36 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-27 21:01 ` Jeffrey Walton
2019-03-27 22:52 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-27 23:09 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2019-03-28 1:12 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28 2:35 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-28 2:44 ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-28 3:42 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28 7:34 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 11:36 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28 15:09 ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-28 18:22 ` Dependancy Hell (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9) Chris Wagner
2019-03-28 17:37 ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9 Achim Gratz
2019-03-27 22:59 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-28 7:15 ` Björn Stabel
2019-03-28 17:40 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-28 18:08 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 18:21 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-28 18:32 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 19:47 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-28 21:38 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 8:43 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 9:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-28 14:02 ` Jeffrey Walton
2019-03-28 18:10 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 18:16 ` Vince Rice
2019-03-28 18:33 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 18:43 ` Vince Rice
2019-03-28 21:34 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 22:28 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-24 21:05 ` Andrey Repin
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