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Re: emacs: nothing happens when launched
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at math dot cornell dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:11:52 -0400
- Subject: Re: emacs: nothing happens when launched
- References: <BAY110-F36727873DABD51900F04398FF60@phx.gbl>
On 7/22/2007 8:31 AM, kev v. wrote:
I haven't run rebaseall (at least not explicitely - I'v never heard
about this utility), however, I installed libncurses7 and now emacs
seems to work fine. In fact, I only had libncurses8 installed on my
system, not libncurses7.
Is it safe to keep both versions without compatibility problems?
Anyway, it seems strange to me that setup.exe didn't detect a depency
between emacs and libncurses7 when I selected the emacs package for
installation.
Yes, it's safe to keep both versions. There was a recent repackaging of
emacs that forgot to indicate the dependency on libncurses7. The newer
experimental version (emacs 22) depends on libncurses8. If I'm not
mistaken, the emacs package should require both libncurses7 and
libncurses8 as long as both emacs 21 and emacs 22 remain available.
I've reported this to the cygwin-apps list already.
Ken
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