On Aug 14 09:43, Steve Rowley wrote: > > On 8/13/2013 6:49 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 05:29:46PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >>> On 8/13/2013 5:01 PM, Steve Rowley wrote: > >>> I just installed 64-bit Cygwin on Win7, and noticed that > >>> /usr/bin/lockfile is missing in my installation. > >>> > >> As always, you can find what package something is in by searching for it > >> here: <http://cygwin.com/packages/> > >> > >> In the case of lockfile, you can see the results here: > >> <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=usr%2Fbin%2Flockfile> > >> > >> However note that, currently, this only searches the 32-bit version of > >> Cygwin. Some packages are still missing from the 64-bit version. > > > > The fact that some packages don't exist yet for 64-bit is something > > that does deserve highlighting. Of course, whether or not the package > > actually exists for 64-bit, the package search will tell you if it > > exists in the 32-bit world, so at least one knows what to look for. > > In this particular case, I did go looking to see if 'procmail' was > > already available for 64-bit. As it turns out, it is. > > Thank you for for the pointer to how to find the Cygwin package > containing a file; that is indeed a useful thing to know. Since > procmail is the home of /usr/bin/lockfile, I reinstalled procmail. > > However, /usr/bin/lockfile is still missing. Unpacking the procmail > 3.22-12 tarball reveals that it contains only the > /usr/share/doc/procmail/ directory, and 4 small documentation files. > The rest of procmail is missing. > > If this is something that will take a while, then perhaps I should go > back to the 32-bit installation so my scripts will work while waiting > for a fix. But as uninstalling and reinstalling a rather large Cygwin > installation is painful, I'd rather not do this if lockfile will be > available in a week or so. > > Does anyone have advice as to whether it's worth waiting vs going back > to 32 bit?
It's just a packaging bug. Somehow I tripped over the order of variable evaluation. I'm looking into it and provide a new 64 bit procmail later today. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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