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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
