Problems with xedit, xcalc, xfontsel, emacs

[Frank-Michael Moser]

> It seems that a simlink is broken.

... but I wonder what is the reason for that.

I had the same problem on my machine. After a lot of debugging I gave up 
for the first time. Then I installed Cygwin with XFree on a friend's box 
and - voila - xedit&co worked fine.

So I decided to reinstall my Cygwin. First I renamed the old Cygwin 
folder and removed all entries from the registry. Then I installed 
everything what I had in my old local package directory from 
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net. But ;( the same problem again.

The only difference (checking cygcheck) to my friend's box was that on 
his box I only installed a subset of my packages. Now I guess that this 
must be a problem which is related to the order of installing certain 
X-packages. There must be a package which creates app-defaults as a 
regular folder before any symbolic link is created such that instead of

   moser@PIP /tmp/test
   $ ls -l
   drwxr-xr-x    2 moser    Kein   0 Nov 12 18:51 a/
   total 0

   moser@PIP /tmp/test
   $ ln -s a b

   moser@PIP /tmp/test
   $ ls -l
   total 0
   drwxr-xr-x    2 moser    Kein            0 Nov 12 18:51 a/
   lrwxrwxrwx    1 moser    Kein           82 Nov 12 18:51 b -> a/

later it looks like this:

   moser@PIP /tmp/test
   $ ls -l
   total 0
   drwxr-xr-x    2 moser    Kein            0 Nov 12 18:51 a/
   drwxr-xr-x    2 moser    Kein            0 Nov 12 18:53 b/

   moser@PIP /tmp/test
   $ ln -s a b

   moser@PIP /tmp/test
   $ ls -l
   total 0
   drwxr-xr-x    2 moser    Kein            0 Nov 12 18:51 a/
   drwxr-xr-x    2 moser    Kein            0 Nov 12 18:54 b/

   moser@PIP /tmp/test
   $ ls -l b
   total 0
   lrwxrwxrwx    1 moser    Kein           82 Nov 12 18:54 a -> a

I guess the package which installs app-defaults/Mwm must be culprit.

Frank-Michael