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R: Utility installation problem - diff (diffutils)
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Philippe Gibelin <pgibelin at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:41:08 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: R: Utility installation problem - diff (diffutils)
--- Mar 10/3/09, Philippe Gibelin ha scritto:
> Da: Philippe Gibelin
> Oggetto: Utility installation problem - diff (diffutils)
> A: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Data: Martedì 10 marzo 2009, 14:08
> When we installed Cygwin, we noticed
> that the "diff" utility wasn't installed by default. We then
> installed diffutils, and diff crashed when a run was
> attempted from the Cygwin shell. From the Windows command
> prompt, it gave an error "missing dll (cygintl-2.dll)". We
> tried to find cygintl-2.dll in the cygwin web, and it is
> supposed to be in libintl2 package. We looked in a mirror
> site, and that package wasn't there.
>
> We then installed the Red Hat version, which included that
> file (cygintl-2.dll), so we copied it to the normal cygwin
> installation, and diff worked!
>
> This would seem to be an installation problem with
> cygwin....
> --
likely an incomplete installation on your system.
From setup.ini diffutils
requires: bash cygwin libintl2 libiconv2
$ cygcheck -l libintl2
/usr/bin/cygintl-2.dll
Regards
Marco
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