Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020424095245.02ba9de8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:56:51 -0400 To: "Gareth Pearce" , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: hmmm possible gpl problem? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:05 AM 4/24/2002, Gareth Pearce wrote: >>In the case of the vcdimager issue recently discussed on this list, I >>was downloading it *because I wanted to used it*, and when I installed >>it, it didn't work: cygwin DLL conflicts. This clued me that the >>program (a) used cygwin [Cool!!] and (b) distributed cygwin1.dll >>[conflicted with my "real" cygwin installation; not cool.] I was > >maybe this is what caused the program to crash when i ran it, but i suspect not, since its linked against cygwin.dll - not cygwin1.dll, which i wouldnt expect to conflict with my cygwin1.dll (Although maybe i am just plain wrong:P). It's the latter. ;-) It doesn't matter what the name of the DLL is. Special steps need to be taken to avoid the internals of 2 Cygwin DLLs from conflicting with each other. While this may have been done in this case, it's some effort so it's unlikely. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/