email package dependency (openssl) not automatically installed

Sat Oct 31 02:46:00 GMT 2009

Steven Monai wrote:
> Hello folks,
>> I installed a fresh Cygwin 1.7 beta, and added the 'email' package.
> Then, I ran the following to send myself a test message:
>> $ echo "Test message" | email --subject="Test" \
>> --smtp-server="smtp.at.my.isp" --from-name="Steven Monai" \
>> --from-addr="steve+cygwin@monai.ca" steve+cygwin@monai.ca
> /usr/bin/email.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
> cygssl-0.9.8.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> Whoops. Is there something wrong with 'openssl'?
>> $ cygcheck -c email openssl
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package Version Status
> email 3.1.2-2 OK
>> No 'openssl'. So 'email' was installed, but at least one of its
> dependencies wasn't. Could this be an 'email' packaging bug?
>> Anyway, after installing 'openssl', 'email' works just fine.

It certainly involves your openssl pacakge:
$ cyg-apt find cygssl-0.9.8.dll
openssl: /usr/bin/cygssl-0.9.8.dll
But it's not a packaging problem:
$ cyg-apt requires email
base-cygwin base-passwd ... openssl ...
I cannot say why openssl wasn't present after installing email.
HTH
Chris
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