Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:30:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: recompiling cygwin dll problems Message-ID: <20040422193040.GA4147@coe.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040421222902 DOT GA20113 AT mdssdev05 DOT comp DOT pge DOT com> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040421221948 DOT 028c5440 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> <20040422182421 DOT GA22635 AT mdssdev05 DOT comp DOT pge DOT com> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040422143806 DOT 038cf008 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> <20040422192900 DOT GA4119 AT coe DOT bosbc DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040422192900.GA4119@coe.bosbc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:29:00PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:44:47PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>>Or maybe its neither a nor b.. perhaps there's a runtime component? Perhaps you >>>can't run two versions of the cygwin dll at one time in separate locations? >> >>Bingo! I guess I should have put an "and" in my first two statements. >>You can only have *1* DLL built from the Cygwin source resident and >>running at any one time. It wasn't clear to me that this is what you >>were doing, otherwise I would have told you that this is a no-no to >>start with. > >Actually, that isn't entirely true or you wouldn't be able to run the >test suite. Looking at the test suite scripts might be instructive. > >cgf >(Who knows he'll regret even mentioning this) Oh, and, in the case of multiple DLLs, in theory, the DLL is supposed to print an error, not just mysteriously die. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/