Re: Workaround for silent linkage errors

2007-11-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Phil Betts on 11/9/2007 10:15 AM: It is designed to be installed in /etc/profile.d and uses one of two methods: 1) Use $PROMPT_COMMAND Won't work as posted, since profile.d is loaded by all bourne-style shells, but 'declare -r' is

RE: Workaround for silent linkage errors

2007-11-14 Thread Phil Betts
Eric Blake wrote on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:56 PM:: According to Phil Betts on 11/9/2007 10:15 AM: If anyone missed this because of ultra paranoid virus filtering (it had a .sh attachment), it's here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-11/msg00173.html I didn't get a copy myself, but saw

Workaround for silent linkage errors

2007-11-09 Thread Phil Betts
We seem to be getting a lot of messages along the lines of I ran xyz and it did nothing. The typical response is something like if you echo $? it is probably 53 which indicates a missing DLL. This usually gives rise to a further email asking where to get the missing DLL. Attached is a short