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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:47:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Pradyumn Sharma <pradyumn_sharma AT rediffmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Where and what is CYGGDBM.DLL?
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On 27 Oct 2001, Pradyumn Sharma wrote:
>
> I installed bash, ash, cygwin, cvs and openssh, and tried running cvs for Windows platform. However, when I try to run cvs command, I get an error message saying:
>
>   A required .DLL file, CYGGDBM.DLL was not found.
>
> I tried reinstalling, but continue to get the same error message.
>
> What am I missing in my installation steps, and how do I correct the problem?

Note that partial installations are currently unsupported.

However, cyggdbm.dll is the gdbm shared library, upon which cvs depends.
You need to install the gdbm package.  gdbm is the "GNU Database Manager".

--Chuck



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