cygstart fails

cygstart fails

[Thomas Wolff]

After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails with:
/usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries: 
cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit; 
works with cygwin 64 bit)
------
Thomas

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RE: cygstart fails

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Thomas Wolff sent the following at Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:26 PM
>After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails
>with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
>cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>(happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit;
>works with cygwin 64 bit) ------ Thomas

Happened to me yesterday.  I installed popt and cygstart worked.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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Re: cygstart fails

[Christian Franke]

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Thomas Wolff sent the following at Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:26 PM
>> After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails
>> with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
>> cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> (happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit;
>> works with cygwin 64 bit) ------ Thomas
> Happened to me yesterday.  I installed popt and cygstart worked.
>

An update of the (now obsolete & empty) package libpopt0 removes 
cygpopt-0.dll. The file cygpopt-0.dll is now in package popt.

Various packages (chkconfig, cygutils*, rsync, ...) still have 
"requires: libpopt0" instead of "popt" in setup.ini. The setup.hint 
files of these packages should be changed accordingly.

Christian


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Re: cygstart fails

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:08:38PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Thomas Wolff sent the following at Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:26 PM
>>> After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails
>>> with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
>>> cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>> (happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit;
>>> works with cygwin 64 bit) ------ Thomas
>> Happened to me yesterday.  I installed popt and cygstart worked.
>>
>
>An update of the (now obsolete & empty) package libpopt0 removes 
>cygpopt-0.dll. The file cygpopt-0.dll is now in package popt.
>
>Various packages (chkconfig, cygutils*, rsync, ...) still have 
>"requires: libpopt0" instead of "popt" in setup.ini. The setup.hint 
>files of these packages should be changed accordingly.

There should be no need.  libpopt0 relies on popt.  There was a brief
period during which that wasn't true but that has been rectified.

cgf

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Re: cygstart fails

[Charles Wilson]

On 1/14/2014 5:08 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
> Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Thomas Wolff sent the following at Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:26 PM
>>> After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails
>>> with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
>>> cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>> (happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit;
>>> works with cygwin 64 bit) ------ Thomas
>> Happened to me yesterday.  I installed popt and cygstart worked.
>>
>
> An update of the (now obsolete & empty) package libpopt0 removes
> cygpopt-0.dll. The file cygpopt-0.dll is now in package popt.

May I ask WHY this change was made? There is a REASON that DLLs get 
their own package, separate from the "main" package -- it's because 
DLLs' version numbers change, and in order to have both "cygfoo-0.dll" 
and "cygfoo-1.dll" installed at the same time, they need to be in 
separate packages...a single "foo" package won't do the trick.

Granted, popt hasn't changed in about a decade, and is unlikely to 
"bump" to a new DLL number any time soon...but why mess with a working 
nomenclature system for no reason?

--
Chuck


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Re: cygstart fails

[Marco Atzeri]

On 20/01/2014 17:36, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 1/14/2014 5:08 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>>> Thomas Wolff sent the following at Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:26 PM
>>>> After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails
>>>> with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
>>>> cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>>>> directory
>>>> (happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit;
>>>> works with cygwin 64 bit) ------ Thomas
>>> Happened to me yesterday.  I installed popt and cygstart worked.
>>>
>>
>> An update of the (now obsolete & empty) package libpopt0 removes
>> cygpopt-0.dll. The file cygpopt-0.dll is now in package popt.
>
> May I ask WHY this change was made? There is a REASON that DLLs get
> their own package, separate from the "main" package -- it's because
> DLLs' version numbers change, and in order to have both "cygfoo-0.dll"
> and "cygfoo-1.dll" installed at the same time, they need to be in
> separate packages...a single "foo" package won't do the trick.
>
> Granted, popt hasn't changed in about a decade, and is unlikely to
> "bump" to a new DLL number any time soon...but why mess with a working
> nomenclature system for no reason?
>
> --
> Chuck

I should say it is a dll only package

cygcheck -l popt
/usr/bin/cygpopt-0.dll
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
[cut]
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/man/man3/popt.3.gz

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Re: cygstart fails

[Warren Young]

On 1/14/2014 14:26, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails with:
> /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
> cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> (happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit;
> works with cygwin 64 bit)

Yeah, I saw that, too.  I figured I'd screwed something up, and just 
manually reinstalled libpopt.

Now I wonder if someone has munged a setup.{hint,ini} file somewhere?

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