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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:11:27 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A vexing installation problem
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:54:54PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Fergus Daly
>> Sent: 30 November 2004 14:19
>
>> > Probably a false alarm.
>> > Is '.' in your $PATH? 
>> No.
>> Fergus
>
>
>Nevermindallthatnow, why have you suddenly changed your surname?  :-O
>
>
>Nonetheless I can confirm that it's a false alarm.  I get exactly the
>same result when I put the dll and cygcheck in a directory on their
>own, remove all cygwin references from my PATH, and try the cygcheck
>from a cmd.exe shell.  It isn't anything to do with .  in the PATH,
>because I didn't have that.  It must be some kind of variant on the
>detecting-the-same-file-twice-by-different-routes bug, but strangely
>enough it gives the exact same path for both of them: ".\cygwin1.dll",
>so I dunno how come it's finding it twice.

Remember that if you have a dll in the same directory as an executable,
windows will use that dll regardless of path settings.

Again, I really don't see what this has to do with anything.

cgf

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