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Re: Error: procedure entry point _getreent could not be located...
From: "Andrew DeFaria"
> Brian Ford wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Ravi Malghan wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi: I recently added lynx to existing cygwin installation. When
installing Lynx, I noticed it installed a new version of perl. Now when I
try to run perl, I get the error: "procedure entry point _getreent could not
be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll"
> >>
> >>What do I have to do to resolve this. Thanks in advance.
> >>Ravi
> >>
> >>
> >You might try including cygcheck output as directed in
http://cygwin.com/problems.html.
> >
> >My WAG, perl needs Cygwin 1.5.5 and you have 1.3.22 or older. Did you
update the Cygwin DLL too?
> >
> I do remember somethign about that entrypoint and 1.5.5. However, if
> installing lynx required the new perl and the perl was dependent on
> cygwin1.dll 1.5.5 then shouldn't setup have handled such a dependency
> chain? (Just curious...)
It should've. Whoever/Whatever is generating the setup.hint file for perl
has been generating *erroneous* setup.hint files. A workaround is to grab a
previous version known not to break dependencies and install it via setup or
manually.
This behaviour of cygwin perl has been around for several weeks now.
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Carlo
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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
http://www.astra.ph
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