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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:26:13 -0500
From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To:	James Garrison <jhg AT athensgroup DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygreadline5.dll redux
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http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002/msg00011.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00855.html
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygreadline5.dll
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01619.html
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC32

Sigh.
--Chuck



James Garrison wrote:

> This file appears to be missing.
> 
> Before someone jumps on my case and says "Search the archives"
> I'd like to point out that
> 
> a) The archives are highly polluted with messages containing
>    cygcheck output that lists cygreadline5.dll.  A search for
>    just "cygreadline5.dll" returns hundreds of hits most of which
>    have nothing to do with the problem.
> 
> b) The archive search engine is too stupid to understand
>    quoted strings meaning adjacency, so that searching for
>    'cygrealine5.dll "not found"' is equivalent to searching
>    for the individual words.  Since 'found' appears in cygcheck
>    output, this does not reduce the number of hits at all.
> 
> Could someone please either answer the question as to why
> some packages still require this library even though it does
> not appear to be included in the distribution, and then
> add the answer to the FAQ?
> 
> TIA
> 




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