grep not working due to missing cygpcre.dll
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@cygwin.com
Wed Jun 25 18:32:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, JK wrote:
> I just updated my installation with the "current" list of packages in
> setup.
> On startup I get a message from grep.exe saying it can't find
> cygpcre.dll.
> So now grep, less and more are broken.
No, it's perfectly fine.
> It's the problem described here:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00034.html
>
> [...]
> aside from waiting until the respective packages are fixed, what do I
> need to do to get grep and less working again ?
Re-install the 'libpcre' package. You have the DLL's for libpcre0 but not
libpcre.
> [...]
> 66k 2003/06/17 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre-0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
> "cygpcre-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/6/17 4:37
> 15k 2003/06/17 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix-0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
> "cygpcreposix-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/6/17 4:37
> libpcre 4.1-1
> libpcre0 4.3-1
Elfyn
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