Cygwin and SetFile

[Volker Simonis]

I think you've somehow managed to mess up your system (after all,
multiple Cygwin and MinGW instances is for wizards only:).

As far as I know, "SetFile" is a MacOS utility (see
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/SetFile.1.html)
and shouldn't be found on Windows.

My configure output looks as follows on Windows:
...
checking for readlink... /usr/bin/readlink
checking for df... /usr/bin/df
checking for SetFile... no
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-cygwin
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-cygwin
...
and doesn't mention 'SetFile' any further.

Regards,
Volker

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.ohair at oracle.com> wrote:
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>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: "Stadelmann Josef" <josef.stadelmann at axa-winterthur.ch>
>> Subject: Cygwin and SetFile
>> Date: February 25, 2013 5:25:12 AM PST
>> To: <kelly.ohair at oracle.com>
>>
>> Hy Kelly,
>>
>> a short question:
>>
>> on my Windows Vista System I have installed quite a bunch of Cygwin tool
>> chain as well as MinGW.
>>
>> I took MinGW out from the path for a moment.
>>
>> Running Cygwin's $ bash configure for build-infra/jdk8 configure
>> starts executing nicely but then hangs for SetFile
>>
>> any attempt to invoked SetFile --help or setfile --help results in
>> "command not found"
>>
>> Going to the Cygwin setup - attempting to just download/install SetFile
>> / setfile results in the fact that setfile is unknown in all components
>> of Cygwin. So no download from Cygwin.
>>
>> I am by far not a master of Cygwin or shell script writing.
>>
>> Do you have any clue how I can go along with this problem for
>> build-infra/jdk8 $ bash configure
>>
>> Josef
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