Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

[marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 2/25/2012 9:06 PM, George Barrick wrote:
> Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
>
>                                2012.02.25.19:18:18 UT
>
> Hey cygwin-x folks,
>
>        I just installed the xorg-server-1.11.4-5, and I
> thought that some aspect of its configuration may have
> broken the xfig program on my box.  This however was
> untrue.  When I reverted to xorg-server-1.11.4-1, the
> xfig crashed on startup as before, and I concluded
> that it must be a difficulty only with xfig.
>
>        I am running on a Dell Optiplex 380 with an Intel
> Core2 E7500 2.93 GHz CPU, 4.0 GBt DRAM and an 150 GBt
> Western Digital HD.  The OS is WinXp Pro. 32-bit, and
> is fully up-to-date.  My CygWin installation is 1.7.10-1,
> the xorg-server is 1.11.4-5, and everything in that
> sub-system is up-to-date.
>
>        The xfig is a minor part of the things I use,
> but I do like to have it around.  It fails to start,
> issuing the messages:
>
> > gbarrick@TS207 ~/figs/sqaccel
> > $ xfig sqposn.fig&
> > [1] 2904
> >
> > gbarrick@TS207 ~/figs/sqaccel
> > $ /usr/bin/xfig.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
> > ?: cannot open shared object file:
> >   No such file or directory
>
> I ran the cygcheck on the xfig package, but it claims
> that none of the required resources or libraries are
> missing.
>
> > $ cygcheck xfig
> > Found: D:\cygwin\bin\xfig.exe
> > Found: D:\cygwin\bin\xfig.exe
> > D:\cygwin\bin\xfig.exe
> >    D:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll
> >      D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
> >        C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
> >          C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
> >    D:\cygwin\bin\cygX11-6.dll
> >      D:\cygwin\bin\cygxcb-1.dll
> >        D:\cygwin\bin\cygXau-6.dll
> >        D:\cygwin\bin\cygXdmcp-6.dll
> >    D:\cygwin\bin\cygXaw3d-7.dll
> >      D:\cygwin\bin\cygXext-6.dll
> >      D:\cygwin\bin\cygXmu-6.dll
> >        D:\cygwin\bin\cygXt-6.dll
> >          D:\cygwin\bin\cygICE-6.dll
> >          D:\cygwin\bin\cygSM-6.dll
> >            D:\cygwin\bin\cyguuid-1.dll
> >    D:\cygwin\bin\cygXi-6.dll
> >    D:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-4.dll
> >    D:\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg-7.dll
> >    D:\cygwin\bin\cygpng12.dll
> >      D:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
>
> I had reason to suspect that it was the
> xorg-server because new versions had recently
> been installed.  When I reverted to the previous
> xorg-server-1.11.4-1, everything was not O.K.
> The xfig still has the problem.
>
> George Barrick                 g_barrick_at_walsh_dot_edu

just installed xfig on latest  xorg-srver 1.11.4-5
and it works.

You have likely an old version of one of the several
dll's.

Dependency Walker can help to find the wrong dll
http://www.dependencywalker.com/

or you can use strace

Regards
Marco

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