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RE: recompiling cygwin dll problems
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:24:24 +0100
- Subject: RE: recompiling cygwin dll problems
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 22 April 2004 20:29
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:44:47PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> >>Or maybe its neither a nor b.. perhaps there's a runtime
> component? Perhaps you
> >>can't run two versions of the cygwin dll at one time in
> separate locations?
> >
> >Bingo! I guess I should have put an "and" in my first two
> statements.
> >You can only have *1* DLL built from the Cygwin source resident and
> >running at any one time. It wasn't clear to me that this is
> what you
> >were doing, otherwise I would have told you that this is a no-no to
> >start with.
>
> Actually, that isn't entirely true or you wouldn't be able to run the
> test suite. Looking at the test suite scripts might be instructive.
>
> cgf
> (Who knows he'll regret even mentioning this)
I thought that as long as the shared memory areas had the same format it
ought to be ok; are there many other complications besides that?
cheers,
DaveK
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