From: Rabbe Fogelholm <rabbe@bahnhof.se>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:45:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b9340c8-91c7-a447-16a8-a26c4f0f5415@bahnhof.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2208d064-934e-d4d9-a33e-220a226d467c@cornell.edu>
On 2020-07-27 19:01, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/27/2020 12:57 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 7/27/2020 9:50 AM, Rabbe Fogelholm wrote:
>>> I am having problems with meld 3.18.0-1. On startup I get
>>> "fatal: external diff died, stopping at <filename>", where <filename>
>>> is a
>>> file to be inspected. My workaround is to downgrade to 3.16.4-1, which
>>> works.
>>>
>>> I am running cygwin on Windows 10. My cygwin installation is recently
>>> updated, except I am using version 3.0.7-1 of the cygwin DLL.
>>
>> That's your problem. meld is a python3 script. python3 won't work
>> with cygwin-3.0.7-1.
>
> I should have said "the current release of python3".
>
You are right Ken, upgrading to cygwin-3.1 solves the issue. Thanks! Not
only 'meld' but also 'make' appears to be unusable on cygwin-3.0.
I have been using cygwin-3.0 because of another issue; I will describe
it separately.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-28 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-27 13:50 Rabbe Fogelholm
2020-07-27 16:57 ` Ken Brown
2020-07-27 17:01 ` Ken Brown
2020-07-28 13:45 ` Rabbe Fogelholm [this message]
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