Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/06/20/10:14:34
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:57:54PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 20 June 2006 02:11, Science Guy wrote:
>
>> I got cygwin working once again on my problem machine. (Hooray!)
>>
>> The problem was that the snapshot tar file, cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2,
>> had cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin but failed to replace the old cygwin1.dll in
>> /bin. I copied over the new cygwin1.dll into /bin, and things are working
>> nicely once again.
>
> Yes, tar can't replace the cygwin dll, because tar relies on having the
>cygwin dll loaded in order to run! You have to extract it separately and use
>a dos prompt to copy it across. You obviously read the FAQ entry, because you
>knew to use the "--exclude=usr/bin/cygwin1.dll" option; read the bit just
>after that again. I guess it's only implied rather than explicit, that you
>could have installed the dll first and the rest later; maybe we could make it
>clearer.
Dave, I think you missed this:
>sciguy wrote:
>>I am networked to a Linux machine, so I moved the tar file
>>cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2 over to the Linux machine, created a dummy
>>cygwin directory to hold the file, and un-tarred it there using this
>>command:
>>
>>% /bin/tar -jxvf cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2
>>
>>Then I ftp'd the entire un-tarred file and directory structure over the
>>cygwin directory of the affected Windows PC.
This is why I kept mentioning that the snapshot cygwin DLL wasn't
installed in the right location. I correctly assumed that this step did
not put the cygwin DLL (or any of the cygwin programs) in c:\cygwin\bin.
The cygcheck output made this pretty clear.
cgf
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