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Re: cygwin1.dll


On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 05:49:32PM -0400, Reynolds, John wrote:
>I previously installed cygwin 1.1.2. I had a need to install an earlier
>version and thought I was safe by using a separate tree. I ran into a
>problem running the cygwin port of Perl 5.6.0 and ran cygcheck -s -v and
>found this:
>
>  755k 1999/09/16 C:\WINNT\System32\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                  "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=1999/9/1 6:10
>  575k 2000/06/07 c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                  "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/6/6 22:20
>
>Looks like the installation of the earlier version overwrote
>c:\WINNT\System32\cygwin1.dll. I assume it and the version in c:\cygwin\bin
>should be the same. Can I just copy the newer version into c:\WINNT\System32
>or will I need to reinstall cygwin-1.1.2.tar.gz? Any other files to worry
>about?
>
>Thanks for your help and sorry for the ridiculous lawyer speak that gets
>appended to all my emails!

There is no reason to install an older version of cygwin.  You are guaranteed
to get into trouble if you have two versions on your system.

I don't know who or what is installing in your winnt\system32 directory.
Normal cygwin setup does not do that.  Remove this version.

cgf

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