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: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:55:44 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Xemacs broken after postgresql upgrade In-Reply-To: <4377A47B.C388430D@dessent.net> Message-ID: References: <82mzka9d8k.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> <4377A47B.C388430D@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-559023410-851401618-1131915344=:21239" ---559023410-851401618-1131915344=:21239 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > René Berber wrote: > > > A better fix is to link cygpq.dll to pq.dll: > > > > # ln /usr/bin/cygpq.dll /usr/bin/pq.dll > > That's not a great habit to get into. It will only work if the program > uses Cygwin methods (e.g. dlopen()) to dynamically load the dll at > runtime. It will absolutely not work for a .exe that was linked to a > .dll in the normal way, or for a program that uses LoadLibrary() at > runtime, because the windows dynamic loader has no idea what a symlink > is and you will get the "Can't locate DLL" popup. "ln -s" creates a symlink, "ln" creates a hardlink. Windows understands hardlinks just fine. On filesystems that don't support hardlinks, "ln" will copy the file, which is the desired behavior. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA ---559023410-851401618-1131915344=:21239 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- 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/ ---559023410-851401618-1131915344=:21239--