Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020402152651.02670d68@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:29:59 -0500 To: Alan Dobkin , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: ncftp current release won't run - missing CYGREADLINE5.DLL Cc: Gord Wait In-Reply-To: <2497078008.1017760096@[192.168.70.5]> References: <2495620152.1017758639@[192.168.70.5]> <2495620152.1017758639@[192.168.70.5]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Right. And I actually forgot about the fact that this problem is in the FAQ too. I need to take some of my own advice and spend more time looking at the FAQ myself! Why can't my application locate cygncurses5.dll? or cygintl.dll? or cygreadline5.dll? or ...?\ http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32 Sorry Chuck and David... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 03:08 PM 4/2/2002, Alan Dobkin wrote: >After posting this message, I finally found the explanation: > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00947.html > >Alan > >--On Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:43 PM -0500 Alan Dobkin >wrote: > > > In my case, I had all the required packages installed (at > > least according to the setup program), but somehow the actual > > contents of the libreadline packages never got installed on > > my system. In other words, the latest libreadline4 and 5 > > entries existed in /etc/setup/installed.db, and the files > > libreadline[45].lst.gz existed in /etc/setup, but the files > > /usr/bin/cyghistory[45].dll and /usr/bin/cygreadline[45].dll > > did not exist. The only way I can imagine this happened is > > due to a bug (possibly fixed by now) in setup.exe, as that > > is the only method I've used to install cygwin packages on > > my system. In any case, the solution was to reinstall them. > > > > I also wrote a quick little shell script to make sure I wasn't > > missing any other files that were supposedly already installed. > > It can be summed up with the following one-liner command: > > > > cd / && ls `zcat /etc/setup/*.gz | grep -v etc/postinstall` >/dev/null > > > > This will print out "No such file or directory" errors for each > > file that is supposedly installed but doesn't actually exist. > > > > Alan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/