id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
322	Annoying cygwin/mingw cfg readline popup	rurban		"mingw with cygwin also installed but not in the path leads an annoying modal warning popup about the missing cygreadline dll, because the mingw libpath search also includes the cygwin /lib path.

auto::readline -      Does your platform support readline...Can't spawn "".\test_4744.exe"": Bad file descriptor at lib/Parrot/Configure/Utils.pm line 86.
.............done.

Either us a win32 trick to ignore this process invocation warning about a missing dll, or remove the wrong cygwin libpaths from the linker search path.

{{{
auto::readline -      Does your platform support readline...

gcc -Wl,--verbose test_892.o -lreadline -o test_892.exe  -lmsvcrt -lmoldname -kernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -version -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lgmp .\test_892.exe

...
attempt to open c:\strawberry\c\mingw32\bin\../lib\libreadline.a failed
...
attempt to open /mingw/lib\libreadline.a failed
attempt to open /usr/local/lib/libreadline.dll.a failed
attempt to open /usr/local/lib/readline.dll.a failed
attempt to open /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a failed
attempt to open /usr/local/lib/readline.lib failed
attempt to open /usr/local/lib/libreadline.dll failed
attempt to open /usr/local/lib/readline.dll failed
attempt to open /usr/local/lib\libreadline.a failed
attempt to open /lib/libreadline.dll.a succeeded
(/lib/libreadline.dll.a)d000367.o
(/lib/libreadline.dll.a)d000000.o
(/lib/libreadline.dll.a)d000584.o

}}}

/lib/libreadline.dll.a is a cygwin path, and mingw should not even know about that mountpoint
"	todo	new	trivial		configure		low						win32