Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/05/28/14:49:24
On May 28, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Reini Urban wrote:
> Michael Hale schrieb:
>> What is the correct way for someone to run multiple versions of
>> cygwin on their machine then?
>
> There's none!
That is too bad. I guess that means I will have to worry about varying
environments in our build process. At least until cygwin has the
ability to run in conjunction with other cygwins.
>
> > This seems like a very useful feature to me,
>> since among other uses it would allow a new version to be tested
>> along side an older but known version of cygwin.
>
> Kill all cygwin processes (via net stop or psservice and then via
> taskman or pskill),
> backup the current cygwin1.dll and rename the new (snapshot) cygwin
> dll to cygwin1.dll,
> start the autostarting cygwin processes again (ipc-daemon2, cron, ...),
> test it.
This is not really a solution to my problem, which is how do I run
multiple cygwin versions simultaneously.
>
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