On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 12/14/2011 10:51 PM, Richard Troy wrote: > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > I'm a long-time Cygwin user and recently got a new Windows 7 box that > > needed to be taught bash and other neat tricks, so naturally I downloaded > > the latest version - 1.7.9-1, I believe - and then did the installation > > from the local repository. I told it to install "absolutely everything". > > > > When it got to the end, the post installation activities failed in > > spectacular fashion. My guess is none of the Cygwin post-installation > > functions were actually performed. The first one to fail was > > /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh, which complained that > > cygreadline7.dll was missing. This was followed by a large number of > > errors substantially identical to that (differing only in what program was > > complaining), and then there were 202 errors where various packages > > complained about some package component returning "exit code -1073741515". > > > > Sure enough, there is no cygreadline7.dll on the box. Hmmm... > > > > ...I figured this must be a common problem, but didn't find it in the FAQ, > > and when I did a search of the e-list, it returned zero matches for > > "cygreadline7.dll" and "missing". A web search yielded no results, either. > > > > I have cygreadline7.dll available on other boxes, in /bin, but the new > > system doesn't have it, and the only file starting with "cygr" in /bin is > > cygrunsrv, yet there are other .dll files in the /bin directory. > > > > Can I / should I merely copy over the cygreadline7.dll from an older > > installation of cygwin? Other comments / ideas? ...I apologize in advance > > if I missed something obvious. > > I recommend running 'setup.exe' again and selecting 'libreadline7' from the > list of packages. That should help.
Hmmm... I tried that and setup didn't show such a package! So, I tried a different mirror and found it elsewhere. It's downloading now. However, this brings up a VERY key point, I think: How was it possible for me to do an installation like this and NOT get readline? And not know about it at the time? I mean, shouldn't the dependencies mechanisms caught this? If I download an incomplete set of materials from some mirror somewhere, how do I catch this other than just trying to fix whatever problems crop up? This has me thinking that over the years I may have had this happen before to me and my coleagues as, for example, quite notably sshd wouldn't work and I never had the time to troubleshoot it... For that matter, can I download an ISO image from somewhere and thus guarantee I get the whole thing? Buy a DVD? Thanks, Richard -- Richard Troy, Chief Scientist Science Tools Corporation rt...@sciencetools.com, http://ScienceTools.com/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
