RE: cygpcre-0.dll not found message

["Ross Boulet" <ross at rossb dot com>]

> -----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.

Ross

Attachment: cygcheck-pass1.txt
Description: Text document

Attachment: cygcheck-pass2.txt
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