X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:29:50 +0000 Message-ID: <6910a60912240229i2e257ba4la854a3c992c1b89c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Re-installed cygwin 1.7 but still getting error running Perl From: Reini Urban To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 2009/12/24 : > I am getting this error when I try to run Perl > > $ perl -v > /usr/bin/perl.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory Can you please post the result of cygcheck /bin/perl I just fixed the wrong setup.hint yesterday, so it could be that you got a broken setup.hint with no dependencies at all. You need those packages: libgcc1 libgdbm4 libdb4.5 crypt libexpat1 libbz2_1 The mirrors should have been updated also, so you can try to re-install perl, which would pull in the required dependencies automatically. > I originally tried to used setup.exe to upgrade my 1.5.x cygwin to 1.7.x > and things seemed to be quite broken. > > So, I renamed c:\cygwin to c:\cygwin.orig and started from scratch. > > Now I'm unable to run Perl :-( > > Does anyone have any idea how to diagnose what's going wrong? > > Thanks > ~ Michael > > =A0<> > > -- > Problem reports: =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: =A0 =A0 =A0http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > --=20 Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple