Fwd: Gaim bug #1079733

he's repeatative, but his overall point that we should not be having 
problems with tcl.dll is accurate.

luke

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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:03:54 -0600
From: Eric Towers <etowers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lschiere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Gaim bug #1079733

Allow me to restate this bug, which I just resolved in a manner that is 
more likely to result in a fix rather than a short, cryptic "fix".

Problem:
Gaim installer fails to recognize Cygwin on the PATH.  Gaim fails to 
recognize Cygwin on the PATH.  Consequently, Gaim produces no GUI when 
run.  There is no evident relationship between installing Eclipse, 
Eclipse's CDT, and the consequent Cygwin and Gaim's sudden loss of GUI.

Troubling behaviour:
Gaim process loads and generates three threads.  Network traffic is 
generated.  No diagnostic is generated.  No window handle is associated 
with the Gaim process. 

Expected behaviour:
Either the UI appears, or some diagnostic, *clearly* indicating the 
difficulty and the resolution appears.

Resolution:
(minimal)
   Gaim installer recognizes Cygwin on the PATH and renames or removes 
Gaim's tcl.dll.
(better)
   Gaim recognizes Cygwin on the PATH and either carefully explicitly 
indicates which DLLs are loaded, or renames Gaim's tcl.dll.
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