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: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:30:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: recompiling cygwin dll problems Message-ID: <20040422193040.GA4147@coe.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040421222902.GA20113@mdssdev05.comp.pge.com> <6.1.0.6.0.20040421221948.028c5440@127.0.0.1> <20040422182421.GA22635@mdssdev05.comp.pge.com> <6.1.0.6.0.20040422143806.038cf008@127.0.0.1> <20040422192900.GA4119@coe.bosbc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040422192900.GA4119@coe.bosbc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:29:00PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:44:47PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>>Or maybe its neither a nor b.. perhaps there's a runtime component? Perhaps you >>>can't run two versions of the cygwin dll at one time in separate locations? >> >>Bingo! I guess I should have put an "and" in my first two statements. >>You can only have *1* DLL built from the Cygwin source resident and >>running at any one time. It wasn't clear to me that this is what you >>were doing, otherwise I would have told you that this is a no-no to >>start with. > >Actually, that isn't entirely true or you wouldn't be able to run the >test suite. Looking at the test suite scripts might be instructive. > >cgf >(Who knows he'll regret even mentioning this) Oh, and, in the case of multiple DLLs, in theory, the DLL is supposed to print an error, not just mysteriously die. cgf -- 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/