Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:56:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem and Fix: Missing cygncurses5.dll... Message-ID: <20011016145623.A26091@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <3BCC8026.4A5BE13F@hotmail.com> <20011016134720.A71599@reliant.immure.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011016134720.A71599@reliant.immure.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:47:20PM -0500, Wayne Willcox wrote: >On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:44:54PM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote: >> Problem Synopsis: >> >> After updating my existing Cygwin/Xfree86 install with Cygwin's >> Setup.exe, I launched XFree86 and tried to bring up an xterm. However, >> I got an error that said, to the effect, "cannot find cygncurses5.dll". >> A little poking around made it apparent that the "upgrade" blew away the >> file /bin/cygncurses5.dll and replaced it with /bin/cygncurses6.dll, >> hence breaking the xterm build. >> >> Problem Fix/Work-Around: >> >> I found that by simply copying /bin/cygncurses6.dll to > >could you have used a sym link... I would think so. Wow. Two wrong solutions to one problem. Here's the correct way to deal with this: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00124.html (and many many other places in the mailing list archives) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/