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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: A vexing installation problem
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:38:24 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of fergus AT bonhard
> Sent: 30 November 2004 13:14

> On my system I have so contrived things that I have exactly 
> one (yes promise
> and hope to die horribly) exactly one cygwin1.dll and there 
> ain't nothing
> else at all, anywhere. Cygwin is not installed. The dll 
> (latest issue 1.5.12
> but not a snapshot) lives by itself with cygcheck.exe in a 
> subdirectory.
> There is no mention of [cC]ygwin or [cC]ygnus anywhere in the 
> registry.
> 
> Moving to that subdirectory and typing
> 	cygcheck -s
> gives
> 	Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path
> in the output.

> Weirdly (?) the "Cygwin DLL version info"

> is provided *twice*, and then comes the Warning message.

  Probably a false alarm.  When you cd /bin and run cygcheck, it gives loads
of false warnings about "./<some_executable> overrides
/bin/<same_executable>" because it hasn't realised there are two different
paths to the same file.  Is '.' in your $PATH?


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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