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Re: Problem and Fix: Missing cygncurses5.dll...
If you are worried about backward compatablity why not install both
dlls' during the new ncurses install or not removing cygncurse5.dll?
If they are really that different a number of other apps might depend on them.
Having to run setup.exe twice seems sort of strange. Is there some
problem or reason to not normally have both the older and the newer dll?
thanks
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:56:23PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:47:20PM -0500, Wayne Willcox wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:44:54PM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote:
> >> Problem Synopsis:
> >>
> >> After updating my existing Cygwin/Xfree86 install with Cygwin's
> >> Setup.exe, I launched XFree86 and tried to bring up an xterm. However,
> >> I got an error that said, to the effect, "cannot find cygncurses5.dll".
> >> A little poking around made it apparent that the "upgrade" blew away the
> >> file /bin/cygncurses5.dll and replaced it with /bin/cygncurses6.dll,
> >> hence breaking the xterm build.
> >>
> >> Problem Fix/Work-Around:
> >>
> >> I found that by simply copying /bin/cygncurses6.dll to
> >
> >could you have used a sym link... I would think so.
>
> Wow. Two wrong solutions to one problem.
>
> Here's the correct way to deal with this:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00124.html
>
> (and many many other places in the mailing list archives)
>
> cgf
>
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