RE: problems with mulitple cygwin installation

[Neil Lunn <neillunn at gunz dot com dot au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dario Alcocer [mailto:alcocer@helixdigital.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:15 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: problems with mulitple cygwin installation
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Habacker <Ralf.Habacker@saght.tessag.com> writes:
> 
>     Ralf> Hi for testing purpose I like to habe multiple cygwin
>     Ralf> installation and only the last installation works, because
>     Ralf> of the mount points are stored (and overwritten) in the
>     Ralf> registry.
> 
>     Ralf> Does anyone know a workaround for that ?
> 
> Of the top of my head, I'd try the following procedure:
> 
> 1. Pipe the output of the 'mount' command through awk or sed to
> generate a batch file that captures the mount points for the currently
> running installation instance.

Huh? Windows Registry! -- sheesh.
             ^^^^^^^^
There has already been a discussion on this list about regressing the cygwin
version (if you really really must do it).

Ultimately there is this. If you are concerned that your ported program
works with an older cygwin than a newer one, then THAT IS A PROBLEM. To
which end either cygwin and/or your program need to be fixed, depending on
who broke what.

If something breaks then it should break in a snapshot, so perhaps you
should look there. But I doubt your problem is with cygwin.

There is often a lot of work put into backward compatibilty, so maybe you
should consider using that.Freeze your versions of source, freeze your
release binaries, and test them on a current cygwin instead. I'd say that is
a far more practical solution to what you are suggesting.

Neil




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