X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:11:17 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible Message-ID: <20110304151117.GB13985@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20110302130651.17593ulkc6umco2j@messagerie.si.c-s.fr> <20110302140857.8746705bfur7cwa1@messagerie.si.c-s.fr> <20110304095224.GB3480@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D70B909.5020904@cpan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D70B909.5020904@cpan.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:03:53AM -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote: >On 3/4/2011 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Mar 4 05:09, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> On 2 March 2011 13:08, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: >>>> P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is >>>> easy to replace cygwin1.dll (keeping around the working one), but in order >>>> to test the cygwin1 package in full (eg to check within stdio.h whether >>>> vsnprintf is included under __STRICT_ANSI__ or not)? >>> >>> You should usually install the cygwin-inst-*.tar.bz2 tarball >>> containing all the relevant headers and tools along with the DLL. >>> >>> There's a FAQ entry describing how to install it at >>> http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots. >... > >I was just shutting everything down, going to c:\cygwin and untarring >from msysGit. > >But apparently that's not correct because now I have stuff in >C:\cygwin\usr\bin . I don't understand why that would be if you're using a version of Cygwin's tar. However, regardless, if you are not building programs which rely on a new api exposed in a snapshot, you shouldn't need to install the full cygwin-inst*.tar.bz2. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple