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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:32:37 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: Cygwin Users <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: CAUTION: A word about replacing the Cygwin1.dll
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In-Reply-To: <3B0C121C.4C22A7FB@etr-usa.com>; from warren@etr-usa.com on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:40:12PM -0600

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:40:12PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> 
>> I've noticed several occurrences of "After I replaced cygwin1.dll by the
>> old version everything was worked again."
>> 
>> I just want to caution you that just replacing the cygwin1.dll may cause
>> you problems when building other packages as the glue that supports the
>> cygwin1.dll API may have also changed.  
>
>Why doesn't the DLL name change when the ABI breaks?

The ABI has never changed except for the addition of new functions.

cgf

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