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Re:Dependency error for package gsl


Larry Hall wrote:
[...]
>If it dies because you're missing cygblas.dll, there is no standard
>error-reporting behavior imposed by Cygwin in these cases.  It's
>application dependent.  So feel free to patch-away to get the behavior
>you want with your favorite applications. ;-)
Fair enough. I always thought that when an application dies because of
a lacking statically linked dynamic library* you get the "this
application needs to be re-installed" error messsage, which I always
took as a genuine Windows error.

Ciao
Tom

*) This is oxymoronic, I know. With that I mean dependencies that can be
tracked by cygcheck, not some real dlopen().


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