On 1/14/2014 5:08 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Thomas Wolff sent the following at Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:26 PM
After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails
with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit;
works with cygwin 64 bit) ------ Thomas
Happened to me yesterday. I installed popt and cygstart worked.
An update of the (now obsolete & empty) package libpopt0 removes
cygpopt-0.dll. The file cygpopt-0.dll is now in package popt.
May I ask WHY this change was made? There is a REASON that DLLs get
their own package, separate from the "main" package -- it's because
DLLs' version numbers change, and in order to have both "cygfoo-0.dll"
and "cygfoo-1.dll" installed at the same time, they need to be in
separate packages...a single "foo" package won't do the trick.
Granted, popt hasn't changed in about a decade, and is unlikely to
"bump" to a new DLL number any time soon...but why mess with a working
nomenclature system for no reason?
--
Chuck
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