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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:59:01 +0100
From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: m4 1.4.16-1 doesn't seem to work
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Eric Blake writes:

> Odd; that says all your dlls are in place.  The only other thing that I
> can suspect is that you have an incomplete dll, where you are missing a
> required entry point (perhaps you are running too old of a
> cygwin1.dll?).  What is $? after the failed m4?  Also, can you try
> opening up a cmd window, and running m4 from there, to see if you get a
> useful popup box? (running under a cygwin shell intentionally suppresses
> dll link error popup boxes)

Indeed, you were right to suspect the dll.  Reinstalling it cured the
problem.

Thanks for all your help!

Cheers,
Uday

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