X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:05:55 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin_create_path import stops executable from running on 1.5 since 1.7.0-63 Message-ID: <20091116000554.GB5020@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <54A098E33E92A04EB0DD9A2E8B546CB05F8F18B8 AT us-ex-mbx1 DOT terastack DOT bluearc DOT com> <416096c60911151247x6e21c41cta62d640329c79c85 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <54A098E33E92A04EB0DD9A2E8B546CB05F8F18C9 AT us-ex-mbx1 DOT terastack DOT bluearc DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54A098E33E92A04EB0DD9A2E8B546CB05F8F18C9@us-ex-mbx1.terastack.bluearc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:53:24PM -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: >>Before the reloc changes, you'd already get an error if your program >>used ctype functions. > >Thinking it might be useful to get the error messages into the >googlotron, I tried to demonstrate this with little programs like this: > >$ cat /tmp/ctype.c >#include > >int main() { > return tolower(' '); >} >$ > >I didn't have any problems running any of them with 1.5, whose >cygwin1.dll exports many plausible-looking names from ctype.h. As Andy said, Cygwin 1.7 is not designed to be backwards compatible with 1.5. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple