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RE: Suggestion for run (with patch)
Brian Dessent wrote on 09 April 2007 22:05:
>
> If you really want a compromise solution, you could modify
> run to not depend on cygwin1.dll at link-time but instead
> LoadLibrary() it at runtime, and if that fails fall back to
> whatever the native version would have done. Thus you get a
> single executable that understands posix paths if the DLL is
> in the PATH and still allows to you "run
> c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" (or whatever it is that you're
> currently doing) if the DLL is not in the PATH. Though that
> itself may cause confusion...
That's a nice idea, but I suspect it would indeed cause more confusion
than any gain - especially when we're only talking about a 50k
executable. Imagine the program silently behaving differently if you
change the PATH. A nice "cygwin1.dll was not found" error message is
usually preferable :-)
I hope that a separately-named (small) executable, perhaps installed
elsewhere, will be acceptable.
Tim.
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Tim Adye T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye
BaBar/Atlas Groups, Particle Physics Dept, Rutherford Appleton Lab
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