Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/02/15:31:54
Right. And I actually forgot about the fact that this problem is in the FAQ
too. I need to take some of my own advice and spend more time looking at
the FAQ myself!
Why can't my application locate cygncurses5.dll? or cygintl.dll? or cygreadline5.dll? or ...?\
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32
Sorry Chuck and David...
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At 03:08 PM 4/2/2002, Alan Dobkin wrote:
>After posting this message, I finally found the explanation:
>
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00947.html
>
>Alan
>
>--On Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:43 PM -0500 Alan Dobkin <Alan AT ADobkin DOT Net>
>wrote:
>
> > In my case, I had all the required packages installed (at
> > least according to the setup program), but somehow the actual
> > contents of the libreadline packages never got installed on
> > my system. In other words, the latest libreadline4 and 5
> > entries existed in /etc/setup/installed.db, and the files
> > libreadline[45].lst.gz existed in /etc/setup, but the files
> > /usr/bin/cyghistory[45].dll and /usr/bin/cygreadline[45].dll
> > did not exist. The only way I can imagine this happened is
> > due to a bug (possibly fixed by now) in setup.exe, as that
> > is the only method I've used to install cygwin packages on
> > my system. In any case, the solution was to reinstall them.
> >
> > I also wrote a quick little shell script to make sure I wasn't
> > missing any other files that were supposedly already installed.
> > It can be summed up with the following one-liner command:
> >
> > cd / && ls `zcat /etc/setup/*.gz | grep -v etc/postinstall` >/dev/null
> >
> > This will print out "No such file or directory" errors for each
> > file that is supposedly installed but doesn't actually exist.
> >
> > Alan
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