On 12/14/2011 10:51 PM, Richard Troy wrote:
Hi Folks, I'm a long-time Cygwin user and recently got a new Windows 7 box that needed to be taught bash and other neat tricks, so naturally I downloaded the latest version - 1.7.9-1, I believe - and then did the installation from the local repository. I told it to install "absolutely everything". When it got to the end, the post installation activities failed in spectacular fashion. My guess is none of the Cygwin post-installation functions were actually performed. The first one to fail was /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh, which complained that cygreadline7.dll was missing. This was followed by a large number of errors substantially identical to that (differing only in what program was complaining), and then there were 202 errors where various packages complained about some package component returning "exit code -1073741515". Sure enough, there is no cygreadline7.dll on the box. Hmmm... ...I figured this must be a common problem, but didn't find it in the FAQ, and when I did a search of the e-list, it returned zero matches for "cygreadline7.dll" and "missing". A web search yielded no results, either. I have cygreadline7.dll available on other boxes, in /bin, but the new system doesn't have it, and the only file starting with "cygr" in /bin is cygrunsrv, yet there are other .dll files in the /bin directory. Can I / should I merely copy over the cygreadline7.dll from an older installation of cygwin? Other comments / ideas? ...I apologize in advance if I missed something obvious.
I recommend running 'setup.exe' again and selecting 'libreadline7' from the list of packages. That should help. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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