Re: Problem running git submodule init: "error while loading shared libraries: ?"

[Kal Sze <swordangel at gmail dot com>]

On 30 January 2014 05:46, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
>
> On 29/01/2014 22:35, jones.noamle wrote:
>>
>> Intro: If you don't know/have time to solve it, I'd still appreciate a
>> few pointers on how to debug this issue (is a library really missing?
>> what library is missing?)
>>
>> Just did a fresh install of cygwin-x86, added the packages: git,
>> openssh, ca-certificates, libsasl2. This is on Windows Server 2008 R2
>> (see attached cygcheck.out)
>>
>> I get the following error when running git submodule init:
>>
>>      $ git submodule init
>>      /usr/lib/git-core/git.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
>> ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> Cygwin in general and other git commands (including 'git submodule
>> update') succeed without errors.
>>
>> Running cygcheck on the git executable did NOT find any missing libs:
>
>
> try
> strace -o /tmp/git.strace git submodule init
>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Noam
>>
>
> Marco
>
>
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Is that possibly the same gettext problem that I bumped into a few
months ago? Basically gettext should be a dependency but is not marked
as such. So you need to manually install gettext to make that error go
away.

I don't use Cygwin 32-bit anymore, so I can't confirm.

Kal

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