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Re: 64-bit Cygwin installation is missing /usr/bin/lockfile


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

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