Problem and Fix: Missing cygncurses5.dll...

[Wayne Willcox]

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.

> /bin/cygncurses5.dll, xterm worked again.
> 
> Of course, the "right" solution would be to recompile xterm, but this
> will have to do for now.
> 
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