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Re: concurrent use of cygwin1.dll for 1.5 & 1.7 ??
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:15:25 +0000
- Subject: Re: concurrent use of cygwin1.dll for 1.5 & 1.7 ??
- References: <49ADA916.40700@columbus.rr.com>
Paul McFerrin wrote:
> While installing cygwin1.7 into another node (cygwinII), I'm wondering
> if there are problems with BOTH 1.5 and 1.7 cygwin1.dll (in different
> directories) being loaded at the same time? I keep running into errors
> as such: *** fatal error - system shared memory version mismatch detected
>
> The 1.5 version is loaded in production while I like to run the 1.7
> version to do some testing
>
> I think I know the answer: DON'T DO DADT!!
Errr no actually, that's supposed to work, and I do it regularly. Is it
possible you left something running during the upgrade? Have you rebooted since?
cheers,
DaveK
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