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cygcheck exit status
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 19:25:04 +0000
- Subject: cygcheck exit status
It is annoying that cygcheck exits with status 0, even if it could not find a file:
$ cygcheck /bin/lilypond.exe
C:/cygwin/bin/lilypond.exe
C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
C:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL
C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.DLL
C:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL
C:/cygwin/bin\cygguile-12.dll
C:/cygwin/bin\cygcrypt-0.dll
C:/cygwin/bin\cygguile-ltdl-1.dll
C:/cygwin/bin\cygintl-3.dll
C:/cygwin/bin\cygiconv-2.dll
Error: could not find cygkpathsea-4.dll
$ echo $?
0
$ cygcheck none
Error: could not find none
$ echo $?
0
This makes exit status worthless when trying to use cygcheck to verify if
an existing file has any broken dependencies (a la the bash upgrade
scenarios being discussed on cygwin-apps). I tried to prepare a patch,
but returning EXIT_FAILURE from main() still produced a 0 exit status,
so it might be that the magic that makes cygcheck know about
cygwin1.dll while still being a Windows app needs fixing, too.
--
Eric Blake
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