On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:08:16AM -0700, Philippe Gibelin wrote: >When we installed Cygwin, we noticed that the "diff" utility wasn't installed >by default. We then installed diffutils, and diff crashed when a run was >attempted from the Cygwin shell. From the Windows command prompt, it gave an >error "missing dll (cygintl-2.dll)". We tried to find cygintl-2.dll in the >cygwin web, and it is supposed to be in libintl2 package. We looked in a >mirror site, and that package wasn't there. > >We then installed the Red Hat version, which included that file >(cygintl-2.dll), so we copied it to the normal cygwin installation, and diff >worked! > >This would seem to be an installation problem with cygwin....
diffutils relies on libintl2 which provides cygintl-2.dll so there is no packaging problem. I don't know why libintl2 was not installed on your system unless it was specifically deselected. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
