[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Support Requests-3516887 ] Lockfile Utility not found

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Support Requests item #3516887, was opened at 2012-04-11 09:02
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Category: Other
Group: None
Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Terabhrava (terabhrava)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Lockfile Utility not found

Initial Comment:
While trying to build a third-party library, the build scripts hit the following error: "lockfile: command not found"

I found this command in "/usr/bin/lockfile" linux console, but not is found in "/mingw/bin" when using the "which lockfile" command.

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>Comment By: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Date: 2012-04-12 07:30

Message:
And, just for fun, I can learn the same on a sudo and apt-get enabled Linux
box, without any internet search:

$ lockfile --version
The program 'lockfile' is currently not installed. You can install it by
typing:
sudo apt-get install procmail

To further qualify what Earnie has already said: we don't provide procmail,
and there really isn't any justification for us to add it to our portfolio.
 We aim to support build systems which conform to GNU Coding Standards;
lockfile is *not* a GCS mandated prerequisite, so any build system which
requires it cannot be GCS conforming; therefore it wouldn't fall within our
remit, to support it.

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2012-04-12 06:18

Message:
The lockfile command is provided by procmail as I've discovered via
http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man1/lockfile.1.gz which
isn't a package we provide.

However there is a Windows API function LockFile that you could use to
create a look alike.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365202(v=vs.85).aspx

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