From: "Andrew DeFaria"
> Brian Ford wrote: > > >On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Ravi Malghan wrote: > > > > > >>Hi: I recently added lynx to existing cygwin installation. When installing Lynx, I noticed it installed a new version of perl. Now when I try to run perl, I get the error: "procedure entry point _getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll" > >> > >>What do I have to do to resolve this. Thanks in advance. > >>Ravi > >> > >> > >You might try including cygcheck output as directed in http://cygwin.com/problems.html. > > > >My WAG, perl needs Cygwin 1.5.5 and you have 1.3.22 or older. Did you update the Cygwin DLL too? > > > I do remember somethign about that entrypoint and 1.5.5. However, if > installing lynx required the new perl and the perl was dependent on > cygwin1.dll 1.5.5 then shouldn't setup have handled such a dependency > chain? (Just curious...) It should've. Whoever/Whatever is generating the setup.hint file for perl has been generating *erroneous* setup.hint files. A workaround is to grab a previous version known not to break dependencies and install it via setup or manually. This behaviour of cygwin perl has been around for several weeks now. Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo ------ Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. http://www.astra.ph -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/