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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:42:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Kern <kernel1983 AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Setup fails!
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Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Kern wrote:

> 2005/10/13, Eric Blake <ericblake AT XXXXXXX DOT XXX>:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > >
> > > "The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the
> > > dynamic link library cygwin1.dll!"
> >
> > What was the title of the popup box (in other words, which
> > app reported this message)?
> >
> > getline() is not present in 1.5.18, only in snapshots.  Did you,
> > perchance, install coreutils-5.90-2, which relies on a snapshot
> > being installed?  We would have known that had you followed
> > these instructions, or at least mentioned which app was in
> > the popup box title.
> >
> > > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> in my opition you should copy the cygwin1.dll to the winnt/system32
> directory.Ignore whatever the installer say there is an old dll in XXX
> path

Your opinion is wrong.  Not only will it make future upgrades hard, it
will also not fix the problem, since, as Eric said, this is a legitimate
message that resulted from installing an experimental version of the
coreutils package.

To reiterate: there is *NEVER*[*] any reason to copy cygwin1.dll anywhere
but the directory mounted as /bin.  Doing so will only break your Cygwin
installation.
	Igor
[*] Unless you really, REALLY, *REALLY* know what you're doing.
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