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Re: Problem and Fix: Missing cygncurses5.dll...
- To: Thomas Chadwick <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: Problem and Fix: Missing cygncurses5.dll...
- From: Wayne Willcox <wayne at reliant dot knighthammer dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:47:20 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- References: <3BCC8026.4A5BE13F@hotmail.com>
- Reply-To: Wayne Willcox <wayne at reliant dot immure dot com>
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:44:54PM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote:
> Problem Synopsis:
>
> After updating my existing Cygwin/Xfree86 install with Cygwin's
> Setup.exe, I launched XFree86 and tried to bring up an xterm. However,
> I got an error that said, to the effect, "cannot find cygncurses5.dll".
> A little poking around made it apparent that the "upgrade" blew away the
> file /bin/cygncurses5.dll and replaced it with /bin/cygncurses6.dll,
> hence breaking the xterm build.
>
> Problem Fix/Work-Around:
>
> I found that by simply copying /bin/cygncurses6.dll to
could you have used a sym link... I would think so.
> /bin/cygncurses5.dll, xterm worked again.
>
> Of course, the "right" solution would be to recompile xterm, but this
> will have to do for now.
>
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