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 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: A vexing installation problem Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:38:24 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Nov 2004 13:38:24.0703 (UTC) FILETIME=[DD998CF0:01C4D6E1] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of fergus@bonhard > Sent: 30 November 2004 13:14 > On my system I have so contrived things that I have exactly > one (yes promise > and hope to die horribly) exactly one cygwin1.dll and there > ain't nothing > else at all, anywhere. Cygwin is not installed. The dll > (latest issue 1.5.12 > but not a snapshot) lives by itself with cygcheck.exe in a > subdirectory. > There is no mention of [cC]ygwin or [cC]ygnus anywhere in the > registry. > > Moving to that subdirectory and typing > cygcheck -s > gives > Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path > in the output. > Weirdly (?) the "Cygwin DLL version info" > is provided *twice*, and then comes the Warning message. Probably a false alarm. When you cd /bin and run cygcheck, it gives loads of false warnings about "./ overrides /bin/" because it hasn't realised there are two different paths to the same file. Is '.' in your $PATH? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/