popups upon library errors.
Edward S. Peschko
esp5@pge.com
Fri Mar 26 08:06:00 GMT 2004
After trying to compile cygwin from scratch, I've come to the conclusion that
opening up popup windows that require human interaction for system events is
well-nigh intolerable, and I'm hoping that something can be done to fix it.
Figure - I'm installing gettext, and configure is doing a bunch of checks
on my system. It tries to find libICE, which is not installed, and isn't
even a fatal error in configuring gettext.
So - instead of going on to the next statement silently, I get a button
that I need to press in order to continue telling me of my 'error'. And hence
stopping the configure process in its middle.
How am I supposed to automate anything with this behavior? I don't want a
cron job silently failing and instead of sending out a window that someone
needs to click - and hence delaying a page being sent - I want the window
to go away automatically and the page to be sent showing error.
Given that when I run processes in strace this behaviour seems to go away
suggests that this isn't something inherent in windows and is fixable.
So - is there a standard way to fix this?
Ed
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