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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:22:44 +0100
From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: JK <katch AT mm DOT st>
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Subject: Re: grep not working due to missing cygpcre.dll
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, JK wrote:

> I just updated my installation with the "current" list of packages in
> setup.
> On startup I get a message from grep.exe saying it can't find
> cygpcre.dll.
> So now grep, less and more are broken.

No, it's perfectly fine.

> It's the problem described here:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00034.html
>
> [...]
> aside from waiting until the respective packages are fixed, what do I
> need to do to get grep and less working again ?

Re-install the 'libpcre' package. You have the DLL's for libpcre0 but not
libpcre.

> [...]
>    66k 2003/06/17 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre-0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygpcre-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/6/17 4:37
>    15k 2003/06/17 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix-0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygpcreposix-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/6/17 4:37
> libpcre                 4.1-1
> libpcre0                4.3-1

Elfyn

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