Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:34:06 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Mismatch cygwin1.dll
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On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:50:13PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>After downloading the latest updates arount 7PM tonight, I ended up with 
>strange version numbers:
>
>For dll 1.5
>    $ cd /c/cygwin/bin
>    $ ls -lc cygwin1.dll                                            
>    -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul Paul 1872884 Mar  4 04:01 cygwin1.dll
>    $ strings /bin/cygwin1.dll | grep "/cygwin-[0-9]" | tail -1 | sed -e 
>"s/^.*\/cygwin-/ /" -e "s/\/.*$//"
> 1.5.25-15
>
>For cygwin 1.7
>    cd /c/cygwinIV/bin
>    $ ls -lc cygwin1.dll
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul Administrators 2464286 Jul 31 13:51 cygwin1.dll
>    $ strings /bin/cygwin1.dll | grep "/cygwin-[0-9]" | tail -1 | s >
> 1.5.25-15

You'd have to wonder what /bin means in the above scenario and what
version of cygwin you're running.

>Every window that is opened displays the current Version string in the 
>banner area.   What gives!!  Sizes are consistance but Version #?

Are you saying that you have things set up to display the current
version string and you use this arcane method to determine the version?
You need to be much more precise if you think there is a problem and,
as always, we really do need cygcheck output.

cgf

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