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From: "Luis P Caamano" <lcaamano AT gmail DOT com>
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Thanks for the clarifications Igor.

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Luis P Caamano
Atlanta, GA USA


On 6/22/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> reformatted.
>
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Luis P Caamano wrote:
>
> > On 6/22/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX> wrote:
>
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.
>
> > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Luis P Caamano wrote:
> > >
> > > > The latest gnome-terminal, which works nicely btw, complaints before
> > > > first start that it cannot find updwtmpx in cygwin1.dll.  I see that
> > > > it was added back in February but I can't figure out which version
> > > > includes it.
> > > >
> > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.cvs/2345/match=updwtmpx+cygwin
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps it's in an experimental version?
> > >
> > > It's a snapshot
> > > (<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.snapshots>).
> > > It'll also be in 1.5.20, whenever that comes out.
> > >         Igor
> >
> > Thanks for your reply Igor.
> >
> > Does that mean that the gnome-terminal I got from standard setup was
> > compiled with the cygwin1.dll file from a snapshot?
>
> First, you did not get gnome-terminal from the official Cygwin
> distribution, since a search for "gnome-terminal" on the Cygwin package
> search page turns up only the icons and the themes.  The fact that you
> used Cygwin setup to install gnome-terminal doesn't really matter, since
> you can supply any mirror to Cygwin setup and it'll happily give you all
> the packages on that mirror alongside the official Cygwin packages.
>
> That means you will need to take it up with whoever provides
> gnome-terminal.  I'm guessing it's the CygwinPorts project, and they have
> their own mailing lists.  Since I can't find anything after a quick search
> of CygwinPorts about gnome-terminal requiring a snapshot, I can only
> assume that it's an unintentional packaging error, but Yaakov would be the
> person to answer that (on a CygwinPorts list).
>
> Also, a minor clarification: it was built against the snapshot *headers*,
> not just the snapshot cygwin1.dll, but the upshot of that is that it
> requires a snapshot DLL.
> HTH,
>         Igor
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