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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:56:23 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem and Fix: Missing cygncurses5.dll...
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:47:20PM -0500, Wayne Willcox wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:44:54PM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote:
>> Problem Synopsis:
>> 
>> After updating my existing Cygwin/Xfree86 install with Cygwin's
>> Setup.exe, I launched XFree86 and tried to bring up an xterm.  However,
>> I got an error that said, to the effect, "cannot find cygncurses5.dll". 
>> A little poking around made it apparent that the "upgrade" blew away the
>> file /bin/cygncurses5.dll and replaced it with /bin/cygncurses6.dll,
>> hence breaking the xterm build.
>> 
>> Problem Fix/Work-Around:
>> 
>> I found that by simply copying /bin/cygncurses6.dll to
>
>could you have used a sym link... I would think so.

Wow.  Two wrong solutions to one problem.

Here's the correct way to deal with this:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00124.html

(and many many other places in the mailing list archives)

cgf

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