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 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) In-Reply-To: <40B78249.8050108@x-ray.at> References: <20040527212657.GC2617@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr> <7F99F48A-B0C5-11D8-BB92-000A95C4BF56@cipheroptics.com> <20040528171500.GC26698@coe.bosbc.com> <40B78249.8050108@x-ray.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9D2262B4-B0D7-11D8-BB92-000A95C4BF56@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Hale Subject: Re: dll version collision Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:48:30 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com On May 28, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Reini Urban wrote: > Michael Hale schrieb: >> What is the correct way for someone to run multiple versions of >> cygwin on their machine then? > > There's none! That is too bad. I guess that means I will have to worry about varying environments in our build process. At least until cygwin has the ability to run in conjunction with other cygwins. > > > This seems like a very useful feature to me, >> since among other uses it would allow a new version to be tested >> along side an older but known version of cygwin. > > Kill all cygwin processes (via net stop or psservice and then via > taskman or pskill), > backup the current cygwin1.dll and rename the new (snapshot) cygwin > dll to cygwin1.dll, > start the autostarting cygwin processes again (ipc-daemon2, cron, ...), > test it. This is not really a solution to my problem, which is how do I run multiple cygwin versions simultaneously. > > -- > Reini Urban > http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ > > > -- > 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/ > > "OS X: because it was easier to make UNIX user-friendly than to fix Windows" -- 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/