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RE: cygpcre-0.dll not found message
At 01:35 PM 4/8/2004, you wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of James Adams
>> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 11:55 AM
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the info Larry, I'll give it a try pronto.
>>
>>
>> -James
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh@cygwin.com]
>> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:50 PM
>> To: James Adams; cygwin@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: cygpcre-0.dll not found message
>>
>> At 12:22 PM 4/5/2004, you wrote:
>> >I tried using "less" for the first time today with a fresh
>> installation
>> of
>> >Cygwin (version 1.5.9-1) and I got an error message telling me that
>> "The
>> >dynamic link library cygpcre-0.dll could not be found in the
>> specified
>> path".
>> >How can I remedy this situation ? I have searched for this
>> file and it
>> is
>> >indeed absent.
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>>
>>
>> This kind of question can always be answered by visiting
>> <http://cygwin.com/packages/> and typing the name of the file you're
>> missing ('cygpcre-0.dll' in this case). The result will tell you the
>> name of the package you need to install via setup (libpcre0 for your
>> situation). Try it. It works. ;-)
>>
>
>I saw the same behavior today on two machines. I believe there is something
>broken in setup's dependencies. I did a fresh install without selecting any
>packages and let setup install just the basics. After the first run of
>setup, running "less" popped up an error complaining about cygpcre-0.dll not
>being found.
>
>I ran setup a second time, again without selecting any packages, and on the
>second pass, setup installed two more packages - libbz2_1 and libpcre0.
>This corrected the issue with less.
>
>I don't know enough about setup and how it decides which packages to
>install, but I don't think this behavior is as intended. I'm attaching two
>cygcheck output files (one after the first run of setup and one after the
>second).
>
>I repeated the process on a different mirror with the same results.
Yes, this is a known problem for new installs. So far, there's no
solution beyond rerunning setup AFAIK. The recipe I pointed out above
is a generic solution to the question of "What package do I need to install
to get XXX utility", of which this situation is a special case. So it's
applicable though not optimal.
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