a question about build/installing

["Christopher B. Liebman" <liebman at zod dot com>]

Can I just drop in the cygwin1.dll and keep the .a and .h files from 1.3.22?

    -- Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: Problem with accept?!! (was: Re: apache cygwin package hangs
when MaxRequestsPerChild reached!)


> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:45:48PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > Corinna schrieb:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:47:55AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > >> Another problem with the latest snapshots was that I cannot build
perl
> > >> with it,
> >
> > > I wonder if it wouldn't be more productive to write *why* it fails to
> > > build...
> >
> > I don't know why it fails.  I just see that the first simple test to
> > execute a perl statement with miniperl.exe (static perl binary) fails.
> > Since miniperl is used to build the rest of perl (the shared core and
> > all the modules) I cannot build perl.
> >
> > I haven't debugged it yet.  I'll need to debug it, I know.
>
> Hint:
>
> Be careful to strictly separate your building environment in two parts,
> one with libcygwin.a and the headers from 1.3.22 (for building 1.3.x
> compatible applications) and one with libcygwin.a and the headers from
> the snapshot (building non-compatible 64 bit applications which only
> run under the latest (1.5.0) snapshots so far).
>
> If you only install the DLL and libcygwin.a from the snapshot but don't
> replace the header files, too, the resulting applications are very good
> candidates for crashing.  Applications build with new headers but with
> the old libcygwin.a as well.  Headers and stub library must match to
> work.
>
> Corinna
>
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