From: fabio AT joplin DOT colorado DOT edu (Fabio Somenzi) Subject: Re: Sergey's cygwin.dll 6 Jun 1997 23:05:25 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199706062253.QAA01928.cygnus.gnu-win32@joplin.colorado.edu> References: <2 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19970605164537 DOT 00943edc AT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> Reply-To: Fabio AT colorado DOT edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970605164537.00943edc@ma.ultranet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under Emacs 19.33.1 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >>>>> "LH" == Larry Hall writes: LH> ... why is there more than LH> one copy of cygwin.dll?? I checked my cygnus install root and LH> found I had 2 copies myself, one in bin (which was Sergey's) and LH> one in i386-cygwin32/lib which was the original. Why the two LH> places? Can I get rid of one?? I certainly don't like having 2 LH> around for a variety of reasons and, although I haven't checked LH> it, I don't think I can remedy the space consideration by using LH> symlinks as Arlindo suggests since symlinks are apparently not LH> followed correctly for executables. At least, that's what I see. My guess is that one is for linking and the other is for running. By keeping two copies the linker only looks in one place, and this place needs not be in $PATH. Anyway, lest I sound like an expert, I'll immediately proceed to admit that Arlindo Da Silva's message was an ey-opener for me too. I had replaced the cygwin.dll in the lib directory, but not the one in the bin directory. When I replaced both, though, I got an unpleasant setback in my attempts at building perl 5.004. At some point a call to "wait_for_many" (or some similar name) failed, and from that point on the speed of execution degraded enormously up to a point when no progress was apparently made. The CPU was idle most of the time. It looked like some process was just waiting for some timeout. When I tried to kill make I ended up with a frozen system and I had to reboot. Fabio -- Fabio Somenzi | Phone: 303-492-3466 University of Colorado | Fax: 303-492-2758 ECE Dept. | Email: Fabio AT Colorado DOT EDU Boulder CO 80309-0425 | WWW: http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~fabio - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".