On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:47:20PM -0500, Wayne Willcox wrote: >On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:44:54PM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote: >> Problem Synopsis: >> >> After updating my existing Cygwin/Xfree86 install with Cygwin's >> Setup.exe, I launched XFree86 and tried to bring up an xterm. However, >> I got an error that said, to the effect, "cannot find cygncurses5.dll". >> A little poking around made it apparent that the "upgrade" blew away the >> file /bin/cygncurses5.dll and replaced it with /bin/cygncurses6.dll, >> hence breaking the xterm build. >> >> Problem Fix/Work-Around: >> >> I found that by simply copying /bin/cygncurses6.dll to > >could you have used a sym link... I would think so.
Wow. Two wrong solutions to one problem. Here's the correct way to deal with this: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00124.html (and many many other places in the mailing list archives) cgf
