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Date:	Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:52:23 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Renaming Cygwin DLLs
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:58:39PM -0600, Mike Disbrow wrote:
>I'd like to build the supporting Cygwin DLLs to be renamed to something
>other than cyg*.dll (e.g.  cygwin1.dll to foo.dll), what is the best
>way to build the DLLs with different names?

May I ask why you want to do this?  I can't think of any valid reason to
rename the DLL which would not involve trying to mask the existence of
Cygwin.  And, I can't think of any reason for doing that which does not
involve either bypassing Cygwin's GPL or trying to take credit for a DLL
which you didn't develop.

I could conceive of someone wanting to do this because they'd think that
by so doing they'd allow two versions of cygwin to exist on a system
at the same time but since it isn't quite that simple, this isn't
a valid reason for renaming the DLL.

So, please enlighten me.

cgf

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