emacs does not work, emacs-nox works

[Fredrik Staxeng]

"Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x@cygwin.com> writes:

>Fredrik Staxeng wrote:
>> Xwin works, xterm works, but when I try to run emacs it just silently exits.
>
>Run 'cygcheck emacs' and see if it reports any missing DLLs.  If so, find
>this missing package(s) you need to install via 'cygcheck -p <missing DLL
>name>'.  Rerun 'setup.exe' and install those packages.  Try again.

Thank you for your help, it wprks now.  Turns out the missing dll was
cygtiff4.dll, which is in the libtiff4 package. 

Is setup.exe supposed to handle dependencies? Should I file a bug
report?  

-- 
Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: sfgk@hcqngr.hh.fr
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