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* Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start
@ 2020-07-27 13:50 Rabbe Fogelholm
  2020-07-27 16:57 ` Ken Brown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rabbe Fogelholm @ 2020-07-27 13:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

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.

Any ideas welcome,
BR / Rabbe Fogelholm

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* Re: Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start
  2020-07-27 13:50 Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start Rabbe Fogelholm
@ 2020-07-27 16:57 ` Ken Brown
  2020-07-27 17:01   ` Ken Brown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ken Brown @ 2020-07-27 16:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

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.

Ken

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* Re: Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start
  2020-07-27 16:57 ` Ken Brown
@ 2020-07-27 17:01   ` Ken Brown
  2020-07-28 13:45     ` Rabbe Fogelholm
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ken Brown @ 2020-07-27 17:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

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".

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* Re: Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start
  2020-07-27 17:01   ` Ken Brown
@ 2020-07-28 13:45     ` Rabbe Fogelholm
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rabbe Fogelholm @ 2020-07-28 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

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.

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