Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
2012.02.27.12:45:48 UT
Hi Marco (and cygwin-x folks),
I will try the experiment that I think
you are suggesting. If the .so is part of an
older .dll, then a reinstallation of the
packages should clear up the problem. I
have
On 2/27/2012 1:47 PM, George Barrick wrote:
Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
2012.02.27.12:45:48 UT
Hi Marco (and cygwin-x folks),
I will try the experiment that I think
you are suggesting. If the .so is part of an
older .dll, then a reinstallation of
The message that I get is:
gbarrick@TS207 ~/jpegs/figs
$ octave
/usr/bin/octave-3.6.1.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
now you triggered all my attention as octave package maintainer
try this
$ cd
On 2/27/2012 3:35 PM, George Barrick wrote:
The message that I get is:
gbarrick@TS207 ~/jpegs/figs
$ octave
/usr/bin/octave-3.6.1.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
now you triggered all my attention as octave package
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken.
2012.02.27.15:00:43 UT
Hi George,
probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect that
your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general.
Probably it tries to inject a dll in the dll chain
does D:\Program
On 2/27/2012 4:01 PM, George Barrick wrote:
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken.
2012.02.27.15:00:43 UT
Hi George,
probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect that
your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general.
Probably it tries to inject a dll in
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken.
2012.02.27.16:18:08 UT
I see no reason to re-install cygwin. It is purely a Avast problem
Hi Marco,
I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its
files would be stored in a better directory. That has
fixed my
On 2/27/2012 5:20 PM, George Barrick wrote:
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken.
2012.02.27.16:18:08 UT
I see no reason to re-install cygwin. It is purely a Avast problem
Hi Marco,
I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its
files would be
On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 11:20 -0500, George Barrick wrote:
I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its
files would be stored in a better directory. That has
fixed my problem, as the av still slips .dll's into the
execution stack when I run cygwin processes, but now
my system knows
