Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

[Brian Dessent]

Olly Betts wrote:

> I don't think there's an obvious dependency cygwin could add to help
> this (unless perhaps something rather arbitrary like making 'make'
> depend on 'file').  So libtool (or rather packages it generates)
> probably does need to cope with file not being installed (or perhaps
> just check for it in configure and get the user to install it).  I think
> for now I'll just add such a check to my project's configure.

In that case adding 'file' to the 'Devel' category might help, since
people seem to like to add whole categories.  Although a configure check
or some kind of fallback would be best.

Brian