Resurrect discussion: Mixing 32 and 64 bit distro

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:41:11 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> I realize I'm chiming in late here, but I'm going to shock everybody and 
> actually *agree* with Yaakov.

WHAT?!?  Nah, must be an impostor.  What did you do with the real
Chuck? :-)

> "I can't run stuff from /cygdrive/c/cygwin32/bin when I'm in a cygwin64 
> shell"

Simple apps do run using the cygwin1.dll, but obviously the mount
table are different and won't IPC with 64-bit apps.

> "I ran setup64.exe to upgrade my existing (32bit) cygwin installation 
> and now it's all broken."

I think we can (and should) make sure that setup won't do that.


Yaakov