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Date:	Wed, 23 May 2001 13:40:12 -0600
From:	Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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To:	Cygwin Users <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: CAUTION: A word about replacing the Cygwin1.dll
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> I've noticed several occurrences of "After I replaced cygwin1.dll by the
> old version everything was worked again."
> 
> I just want to caution you that just replacing the cygwin1.dll may cause
> you problems when building other packages as the glue that supports the
> cygwin1.dll API may have also changed.  

Why doesn't the DLL name change when the ABI breaks?
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