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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:39:51 +0100
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "dynamic link library /dev/null could not be found"
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Scott Collis wrote:

> I am having the same problem.  I switched to 1.3.8 and now when I compile my
> in-house code I get the same popup window that David sees referring to
> /dev/null
> 
> I do not use -lpthread but do use -lm on my link line:


Yes! In my previous mail I pasted from the 1.3.7-1 announcement -
subject to this changes are libpthread, libc and libm.


[snip]



> Unfortaunately for me, unlike David, when I used setup.exe to go back to
> cygwin-1.3.6-6 the problem did NOT go away...?



You have to recompile the executable for the changes to take effect i.e. 
the executable must be based on the newly (1.3.6-x in this case) 
installed import libs.

P.S. And, yes, this is a me too :P


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