X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake) To: Bob Rossi , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: readline 5.1 question Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:48:01 +0000 Message-Id: <012020061548.28917.43D10631000AEF8B000070F522007374780A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Hi all, > > My application recently started depending on readline 5.1. In Cygwin, I > installed in setup.exe > All->Devel->readline, and I have version 5.1-1 as the current. Did you also pick up libreadline6-5.1-1? readline-5.1-1 only contains the headers and static link library, but using plain -lreadline without also using -static picks up the dynamic link library. The .dll is purposefully shipped in a different package, since the .dll is required by base packages, but the headers and static libraries are only needed in a development environment. I don't know of a way to make setup.exe force dependencies across experimental versions (ie. if you select just readline-5.1-1, it would be nice if cygwin.exe could then automatically also select libreadline6-5.1-1). By the way, following the directions here, by attaching the output of cygcheck -svr, would have made it more obvious to me if you are experiencing the version mismatch that I think you are: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin readline maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/