X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Message-ID: <511181EE.6000309@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:04:30 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: emacs fails on startup: cannot find cyggnutls-26.dll (with possible workaround) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Tue Feb 5 17:04:35 2013 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 2/5/2013 3:41 PM, Arnold Boothroyd wrote: > After updating Cygwin on a Dell PC running Windows 7 (it may have been a > year or two since the previous update, since setup.exe was outdated and > therefore replaced with the current version), emacs (which had worked > fine before) failed on startup, giving the error message > > /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe: error while loading shared libraries: > cyggnutls-26.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The solution is to install the package libgnutls26, which should be a dependency of emacs but isn't. Could someone please add it? This is a packaging error on my part, due to the fact that the test version of emacs requires libgnutls28. Until the test version becomes the current version, I'll have to require both. Thanks for the report. Ken -- 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