Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can't build GTK only using CMake on Windows7
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:03:44 -0700
On 3/30/16 8:44 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> 
> There seems to be something wrong with the python installation in Cygwin. 
> To build the docbook stuff we use the Cygwin a2x utility that depends on
> the Cywin python.  There's quite a bit of juggling that goes on here to
> keep things straight.  I'm not sure what's happening here.

/usr/bin/python in Cygwin is a symbolic link, which is typically unusable
outside of Cygwin. On my system it's a text file that contains the string
"!<symlink>python2.7.exe".