From:	emarshal AT common DOT net ("Edward S. Marshall")
Subject:	Wierd "make" stack faults, and other stuff...
4 Jan 1997 16:31:30 -0800 :
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I've noticed a lot of people posting problems with stack faults when they
run make, etc, lately, and I ran into the same problem myself. I think I
may have found the culprit: when I originally installed an older version
of the tools, I installed a copy of cygwin.dll in %windir%\system32. This
copy was being loaded whenever I attempted to run something; the reason
_some_ of my software still worked was that I still had a copy of the
cygwin.dll file in my H-i386-cygwin32/bin directory, which was being
loaded when I ran bash. However, /bin/sh.exe was just a copy of bash.exe,
and there wasn't a copy of the library available in that directory, so it
loaded the version it found first: in the windows directory. Blecch.

The moral: don't mix your libraries. :-)

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