xinit: The application has failed to start because cygfreetype-6.dll

[Constantine]

Harold wrote:

>Constantine wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> After I have updated my installation today, and when I am running xinit 
>> now, I get a Windows window with the message that "cygfreetype-6.dll was 
>> not found".
>> 
>> After I did the following, everything worked again:
>> 
>> cd /usr/X11R6/bin/
>> cp cygfreetype-9.dll cygfreetype-6.dll
>
>Constantine,
>
>Hmm... I would appreciate it if you could help me to figure out what the 
>real problem is here.  The new XFree86-bin-4.3.0-7 package no longer 
>contains cygfreetype-9.dll, as this library is now distributed as part 
>of the freetype2/libfreetype26 package.  freetype2 defines the version 
>of the freetype2 library as '6' instead of the '9' that XFree86 was 
>using as the library version.  I added a copy of cygfreetype-9.dll to 
>the XFree86-lib-compat package for those that need the old library.
>
>However, I want to know what application was failing in your xinit 
>scripts.  There should not be an application that requires 
>cygfreetype-9.dll in the default script.  Have you modified your script? 
>  What program are you launching that requires this DLL?  Are you 
>launching emacs?
>
>I would like to get any old applications that use cygfreetype-9.dll rebuilt.
>  
>
No, everything should be by default, except for my ~/.xinit file.

I just erased that file, ran the installer again (it downloaded only 
'libfontconfig1-2.2.0-1.tar.bz2' and 'libfreetype26-2.1.5-1.tar.bz2'), 
and it seems to work fine.
It is very strange, since the setup.ini files from yesterday and today 
seem to be the same, and I did not selected nor deselected any option 
neither today nor yesterday. Well, I guess it is the people who make the 
setup.exe to blame.

Cheers,
Constantine.

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