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Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:41:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	Alexey Lyubimov <alexeipobox AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: cygwin 1.5.25-7: cygcheck does not work?
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Thanks, Brian!
But what would be the "final" decision? As far as I
understand 1.5.x branch MUST support Win98. Am I
right?
Should I wait for 1.5.25-8 (where hard dependencies on
NT-dll would be removed, I hope) or should I downgrade
to some previous 1.5.25-x?

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Alexey
 
Brian Dessent wrote:

>The problem is that bloda.c calls
>NtQuerySystemInformation without using
>any kind of autoload.cc-type indirection, and so
>cygcheck gets a hard
>dependency on ntdll.dll which doesn't exist on 9x/ME.
 >We need to do one
>of:

>- Revert the bloda-check feature on the 1.5 branch
>- Check windows version at runtime and only do NT
>calls >through
>LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress
>- Use the autoload.cc trick in cygcheck

>If we're going to make releases from the 1.5 branch
>then >I don't think


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