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I've been having a devil of a time lately (sorry, I've just watched two British movies in a row) trying to install a complete source tree into a new "root" cygwin directory. Every time, the top level make install hit the winsup directory, the installation would go crazy because it was installing a new cygwin1.dll and the /bin/sh that was being run was using the old one. I tried making sure that nothing in the new root directory was in the path but that didn't help because many things reference /bin/sh directory. I tried renaming the dll out of the way, which worked, but fork didn't like that at all. My solution is to do this: mount -b c:\oldcygwin\bin\sh.exe /bin/sh Then, any time that somebody (i.e., make) wants to run /bin/sh it uses the older version of both /bin/sh and the cygwin1.dll. It works great. I thought that I'd pass this tidbit along in case anyone else was having similar difficulties. -chris
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