Re: [SOLVED] Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-28 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I've rewritten speclib (for the third or fourth time). It should use a > more foolproof method to create the .a files. The output from "objdump > -p" still shows separate "DLL Name" sections whenever one of these > special libraries is used but hopefully this is no lo

Re: [SOLVED] Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:29:28AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:49:36PM +, Dave Korn wrote: >>So the linker is DTRT, the problem has always existed but been masked >>by the fact that nothing between -lm and -lcygwin used to import >>anything, the problem has aris

Re: [SOLVED] Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:49:36PM +, Dave Korn wrote: >> So the linker is DTRT, the problem has always existed but been masked by the >> fact that nothing between -lm and -lcygwin used to import anything, the >> problem has arisen now because now that does happen,

Re: [SOLVED] Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:49:36PM +, Dave Korn wrote: > So the linker is DTRT, the problem has always existed but been masked by the >fact that nothing between -lm and -lcygwin used to import anything, the >problem has arisen now because now that does happen, and the solution is to >mung the

[SOLVED] Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
[SOLVED, yes, but no patch just yet, only the full explanation.] Corinna Vinschen wrote: > What I'm wondering is, why did it work all these years before? Is it > a bug in the new binutils? Or was it a bug in the old binutils to > create working results? I installed Cygwin-1.5 from the Time