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: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:11:27 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A vexing installation problem Message-ID: <20041130151127.GF1015@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <830404B1D376BA46BC25BE71A3E128736D5F3B@corvus.tcgp.dundee.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:54:54PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Fergus Daly >> Sent: 30 November 2004 14:19 > >> > Probably a false alarm. >> > Is '.' in your $PATH? >> No. >> Fergus > > >Nevermindallthatnow, why have you suddenly changed your surname? :-O > > >Nonetheless I can confirm that it's a false alarm. I get exactly the >same result when I put the dll and cygcheck in a directory on their >own, remove all cygwin references from my PATH, and try the cygcheck >from a cmd.exe shell. It isn't anything to do with . in the PATH, >because I didn't have that. It must be some kind of variant on the >detecting-the-same-file-twice-by-different-routes bug, but strangely >enough it gives the exact same path for both of them: ".\cygwin1.dll", >so I dunno how come it's finding it twice. Remember that if you have a dll in the same directory as an executable, windows will use that dll regardless of path settings. Again, I really don't see what this has to do with anything. 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/