1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

[Shankar Unni]

Morche Matthias wrote:

> cygwin1.dll not found comes up during the update of cygwin

This is a common problem, if you're updating a bunch of packages 
including cygwin all together, and one of the packages has an uninstall 
script that runs some other cygwin binary.

Setup normally downloads everything (that was selected), uninstalls 
everything, and then re-installs everything. Where things go wrong is in 
the order of these uninstalls and re-installs.

What happens is that sometimes, cygwin gets uninstalled before some of 
the other packages, so when that other package's uninstall script gets 
run, it can't find cygwin1.dll (which has just been removed).

Normally, clicking OK on the error and letting the installation continue 
results in a usable system. (most packages' post-install configuration 
changes don't radically change between releases..)

It's mostly cosmetic. It would be nice (WIBNI?) if setup always sorted 
packages specially so that "cygwin" would always be the last thing 
uninstalled and the first thing installed when a mixture of packages is 
selected for upgrade.


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