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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:34:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: MEA-MikeFriedrichs <mfriedrichs AT machanalysis DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 'less' can not find dll
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, MEA-MikeFriedrichs wrote:

> At 04:55 PM 02/27/2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
> >MEA-MikeFriedrichs wrote:
> >
> > > This is my error that Win2k reports when I try to use 'less'.
> > >
> > > Event Type:     Information
> > > Event Source:   Application Popup
> > > Event Category: None
> > > Event ID:       26
> > > Date:           2/26/2004
> > > Time:           11:16:30 AM
> > > User:           N/A
> > > Computer:       MEA2
> > > Description:
> > > Application popup: less.exe - Unable To Locate DLL : The dynamic link
> > > library cygpcre-0.dll could not be found in the specified path
> > > f:\cygwin\bin;.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT;f:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;f:\cygwin\bin;f:\cygwin\bin;f:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;c:\WINNT\system32;c:\WINNT;c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;c:\Program
> > > Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\;f:\win2k\bin\matlab\bin\win32.
> >
> >
> >I don't see why this thread has ballooned into such an ordeal.  Run
> >setup.exe.  Install the "libpcre0" package, which is a library on which
> >'less' depends.  That's all that is required, and that's what the output
> >of the "Package search" page is telling you.  The other posters were
> >trying to point you in a direction so that you could figure that out for
> >yourself so you wouldn't have to ask next time.  "Teach a man to fish"
> >and all that.
> >
> >As far as setup.exe is concerned, it should have installed this package
> >for you.  The setup.hint for the 'less' package includes the line:
> >
> >requires: cygwin termcap libpcre0
> >
> >Which means that if you select 'less' then setup.exe should also select
> >'libpcre0' and 'termcap', unless you override it.  Can someone verify
> >that this works, please?
> >
> >Brian
>
> I cleaned out my cygwin directory and did a clean install. Still no
> 'cygpcre-0.dll'.
>
> I was able to get 'less' working by copying '/bin/cygpcre.dll' to
> '/bin/cygpcre-0.dll'.
>
> Thanks for everyone's help.
>
> MikeF

Mike,

Did you ever attach the output of "cygcheck -svr" for your system, as
requested in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>?
An obvious question that (I think) hasn't been asked, and which will be
answered in the cygcheck output: which mirror were you using?
	Igor
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