public inbox for cygwin@cygwin.com
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: William Hu <purplearmadillo77@proton.me>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Subject: Re: ncurses-demo-6.3-1.20220416 not displaying any output
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 17:58:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <z0_V4F5-8Tsuw9LAL_vwTPS1a1nOKAwBm1Z-qVBm_ssdLST8mXE4vNkjHPECTx5zZ8ivT9_E8T_8pBT5KoHdAagkxusrA7PHEToCHXITH2E=@proton.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01f707dc-83c2-dbfa-3e9a-f716e755e269@SystematicSw.ab.ca>

Hi Brian,
> Works fine for me with all test packages upgraded to the same version and either
> shell restarted or DLLs rebased by setup.
> 
> Please check that libncursesw10 has also been upgraded to the same version
> 6.3-1.20220416 e.g.
> 
> $ grep ncurses /etc/setup/installed.db
> libncursesw10 libncursesw10-6.3-1.20220416.tar.bz2 0
> ncurses-demo ncurses-demo-6.3-1.20220416.tar.bz2 1
> 
Yep, that was the problem! Thank you!

I think it might be more informative to either produce a warning about incompatible library versions rather than just silently exiting or requiring a certain minimum version of the library with the demos (not sure if that's possible with cygport). 

William



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-22 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-21 18:49 William Hu
2022-10-21 21:11 ` Brian Inglis
2022-10-22 17:58   ` William Hu [this message]
2022-10-22 22:41     ` Brian Inglis

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='z0_V4F5-8Tsuw9LAL_vwTPS1a1nOKAwBm1Z-qVBm_ssdLST8mXE4vNkjHPECTx5zZ8ivT9_E8T_8pBT5KoHdAagkxusrA7PHEToCHXITH2E=@proton.me' \
    --to=purplearmadillo77@proton.me \
    --cc=Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca \
    --cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).