Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/07/10/16:14:32
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 21:51:28 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> By testing. It's save to use older DLLs if they don't expect any of
> the changed datatypes as parameter or part of a parameter. This
> part of the application is of course not 64 clean. However, for
> testing purposes I've build OpenSSH using the current OpenSSL and it
> still worked fine. Just as a prove of concept.
>
I tried this with some of our apps too and poof, seg fault. I was just
hoping someone had already figured out any easy test to see if a dll is
effected.
I think package maintainers are going to have a hard time figuring out
when it is safe to recompile under 1.5.0. And I bet there will be some
circular dependencies.
> It's safe to use 1.3.22 headers *together* with 1.3.22 libcygwin.a as
> well
> as it is safe to use 1.5.0 headers *together* with 1.5.0 libcygwin.a
> when building a package, Headers and libcygwin.a are birds of a feather.
> Mixing 1.3.x headers with 1.5.0 libcygwin.a and vice versa will very
> likely create a special application which main purpose is to test how to
> get segmentation violations.
>
What I was really reffering to was the strange, yet I believe valid,
configuration of 1.3.22 headers and import library with a 1.5.0 dll.
Thanks for the info.
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Brian Ford
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VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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