X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:45:08 +0100 (MET) From: Angelo Graziosi To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Linker error after clean reinstallation of Cygwin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > After I reinstalled Cygwin there is the following linker error in build > > some applications: > > > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > g77 ... foo.F .... -lcygipc > > > > /bin///ld: cannot find -lcygipc > > ... > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > The cygipc package has not been reinstalled, it, now, belongs to obsolte > > section. > > > > Should I reinstall it or is sufficient to delete '-lcygipc' from the > > build command? > > Actually, cygipc *is* installed, but the new version is empty (as are all > obsolete packages), so reinstalling it won't help unless you go for the > old version. > > That said, IIRC, the cygipc functionality is superseded by the Cygwin DLL > itself, so deleting -lcygipc should work. However, now instead of > starting the cygipc service, you need to add and start the cygserver > service. I'm sure there's an entry about this in the FAQ or the User's > Guide somewhere -- if not, you can read the cygserver README. > Igor > For the moment deleting -lcygipc seems to work. Cheers, angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/