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 Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 19:22:31 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygipc (and PostgreSQL) XP problem resolved! Message-ID: <20030510172231.GN19367@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030506174725.GE1652@tishler.net> <3EB84F52.3020608@ece.gatech.edu> <20030507133326.GA1824@tishler.net> <3EB9A54B.8060500@ece.gatech.edu> <20030508135217.GD512@tishler.net> <3EBB22F5.4000801@ece.gatech.edu> <1052541657.1675.5.camel@localhost> <20030510072110.B12261@ns.helixdigital.com> <20030510155401.GI19367@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20030510095611.A20781@ns.helixdigital.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030510095611.A20781@ns.helixdigital.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 09:56:11AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: > But what if the data types used by the existing functions are changed? > In other words, the old library has void FooFunc(off_t) where off_t is a > 4-byte quantity, but the new library uses an 8-byte off_t? So what? If we change the name, we don't have anything like a transition period. It's just a new DLL which requires to rebuild all tools to work with. It's a whole new release. My old 16/32 bit apps are still working fine under a new 32/64 Cygwin DLL. Your below example is a bad coincidence. > For instance, the PowerTV tool chain uses GNUPro 99, which has an Urgh, that's pretty old... > ancient cygwin1.dll included. As long as I don't install the latest > Cygwin stuff, everything is ok. However, as soon as I install the Are you talking about 1.3.22 or the current stuff from CVS? > They way I've gotten around this issue is to binary edit the PowerTV > tool chain and change references to the cygwin1.dll to refer to > cygwin0.dll; this is a very ugly hack. But it works. I recall having to do the same with a couple of tools when Cygwin changed from cygwinb20.dll to cygwin1.dll. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/