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: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:54:58 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: a standard place to get cygwin Message-ID: <20050119205458.GA32593@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:38:23PM -0500, Green, Keith wrote: >Larry wrote: >>Sounds to me, though, like you have an errant Cygwin install hanging >>around. First thing to do is follow this FAQ: >> >>How do I uninstall all of Cygwin? >> >> >>If after installing with that procedure, you still have problems, you >>have a program installed on your system that uses it's own version of >>'cygwin1.dll'. Hunt down that DLL and destroy it. The program using >>it should be able to use the same 'cygwin1.dll' that you just >>installed. If it cannot, contact the provider of that program. > >After installing cygwin on one of my boss's machines, he too was >missing grep - and I know for certain he's never installed cygwin on >his machine. However, I'll hunt this down. On my machine at least I >have maybe half a dozen different installs sitting around in various >states of disrepair. Once I can get it working correctly on my >machine, I'll look at his. Hopefully, you have finally bitten the bullet and just installed grep by rerunning setup.exe by now... 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/