Re: autoconf2.7 missing on scallywag?

Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin.applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18/05/2025 14:47, Jon Turney wrote:
> 
> Idk how this problem can be solved without writing our own loader (or a 
> pre-loader, run before CreateProcess() which just checks if everything 
> good (which would probably make fork() performance even more terrible))
> 

Actually, we could have a post-loader: if CreateProcess() fails with the 
error code we get when symbols are missing, we could run a tool which 
checks for that and outputs problems to stdout.

That would at least avoid the performance hit.
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