X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:19:55 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 Dave Korn wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> Dave Korn wrote: Making a habit of correcting myself today... d'oh! >> Nope, that's not it. I think I /have/ traced it now: it's a packaging >> error in libxml2 package itself. It contains the dll, but the maintainer >> forgot to package it with the correct prefix. You might be able to fix >> the problem by a rename: >> >> mv /bin/cygxml2-2.dll /bin/libxml2.dll > > No, that's not it either! Cygcheck clearly shows that xmlcatalog.exe is > linked against the non-standard name: > > dk@espanola /bin> cygcheck xmlcatalog.exe > Found: C:\cygwin\bin\xmlcatalog.exe > C:/cygwin/bin/xmlcatalog.exe > C:\cygwin\bin\cygxml2-2.dll Just to clarify: it is entirely standard for cygwin apps to use non-standard cygXXX names for cygwin dlls to link against. It would be very nonstandard of xmlcatalog to link against a dll with a standard libXXX name. Hope that clears up any confusion! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/