Re: make command gives: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file

["Arnaut B" <arnaut dot billings at yahoo dot com>]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:41:25 -0800, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:

> On 12/6/2016 6:54 PM, Arnaut B wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > After updating cygwin to the latest current release, my "make" command
> > is broken. It spits the following error:
> >
> >   C:/cygwin/bin/make.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?:
> > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > My setup-x86.exe version is 2.876
> >
> > I did try "cygcheck.exe /usr/bin/make", and got the following error:
> >
> >   cygcheck: track_down: could not find cygcrypt-0.dll
> >
> > So I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the crypt package under Libs, but
> > that didn't work. I also tried uninstalling/reinstalling the make
> > package, and that did not fix the issue either. Any help would be
> > appreciated.
>
> /usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll is provided by the libcrypt0 package.  Try  
> reinstalling that.
>
> Ken

Thanks. That did it. Wish there was an easier way to get the answer than  
going on the mailing list. Is there a command that can check what package  
a dll belongs to?


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