Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/20/22:42:15
On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 12:28, Dylan Cuthbert wrote:
> Sorry to waste everybody's time, but I'm really confused now. I re-compiled
> the program today with the *exact* same command line arguments, the only
> difference is that I've rebooted the computer. The program now works
> *fine*!!
>
> The order of events:
>
> 1> I logged in as Administrator and ran cygwin's setup.exe
> 2> I installed all the latest Exp stuff, setup didn't say I needed to
> reboot, so I didn't.
> 3> I logged out, logged back in as myself
> 4> Tried using the -mno-cygwin options and hit the problem posted yesterday.
> 5> Shutdown win2k and went home
> 6> First thing this morning, tried *exactly the same thing*, and it works.
>
> :-?
>
> I think I'll reboot no matter what Setup reckons in the future. :-)
What OS are you running? If it's NT/2K setup can't replace in use files,
and thats when it will warn. If setup doesn't warn you, then you don't
need to reboot.
Rob
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