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On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, keinnamens wrote:

> I seem to have a cygwin problem that others have had, but the fixes that
> worked for them have not fixed my installation.
> What further steps can I take to try and fix the error "The procedure
> entry point getline could not be located in the dynamic link library
> cygwin1.dll"?
> Thanks.
>
> Window title:	find.exe - Entry point not found
> Message: The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the
> 	 dynamic link library cygwin1.dll
>
> Happens when:	I launch cygwin or invoke find.exe.

You have an old version of Cygwin on your system.  Without knowing more
about your Cygwin configuration, the best this list can offer is guesses.

> I had a working but limited "default" install of Cygwin on Windows XP.
> I ran the installer later, added dev tools, vim, wget, etc. Had some
> disconnections after choosing modules before setup.exe did the
> downloads.
> Because of the disconnects, I used 2 or 3 different mirrors on these
> attempts (Maybe I got dlls out-of-sync that way?)
>
> Posts I've read: FAQ, Problems, and 40 posts (see list below).

Oh, good, so you've read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>...  Please
re-read it and follow the directions in bold (in the third bullet).  This
will give us enough information to attempt diagnosing the problem.

> The gist from other posts:
> 	You have an old version of cygwin1.dll

This is the most likely culprit.

> 	You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll

...and one of them is old...

> 	You have cygwin1.dll in a software distribution

...and it is old.

> [snip]
> Posts that I've read on similar errors:
> [snip]
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00307.html
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00846.html

While we admire the amount of research, why would you think that 4- and
7-year-old posts have any relevance anymore?
HTH,
	Igor
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