X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:57:52 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <43C3F189.DE55A6F8@dessent.net> 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 Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> 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. > > Right. And you should not find any package in the Cygwin distro that > depends on a DLL named "libxml2.dll" because all Cygwin DLLs should > begin with cyg. This leads me to believe that the poster has a > foreign/non-cygwin version of xmlcatalog in his path which is actually > being run from the postinstall. That's pretty much what I had concluded, but I did go so far as to download and check a really old libxml2 package tarball, just in case an early version had mistakenly supplied / linked against a non-cyg-prefixed version of the dll, and it was fixed in more recent versions and the transition was causing a problem. Sure enough, neither libxml2-2.6.11-1.tar.bz2 nor libxml2-2.6.13-1.tar.bz2 required any libxml2.dll, so I reckon that theory is ruled out. Marcus! You still there? It's time you did the cygcheck thing. (Attachment, not in the body text, please!) 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/