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Re: cygstart fails
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:25:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygstart fails
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:08:38PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Thomas Wolff sent the following at Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:26 PM
>>> After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails
>>> with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
>>> cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>> (happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit;
>>> works with cygwin 64 bit) ------ Thomas
>> Happened to me yesterday. I installed popt and cygstart worked.
>>
>
>An update of the (now obsolete & empty) package libpopt0 removes
>cygpopt-0.dll. The file cygpopt-0.dll is now in package popt.
>
>Various packages (chkconfig, cygutils*, rsync, ...) still have
>"requires: libpopt0" instead of "popt" in setup.ini. The setup.hint
>files of these packages should be changed accordingly.
There should be no need. libpopt0 relies on popt. There was a brief
period during which that wasn't true but that has been rectified.
cgf
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