recompiling cygwin dll problems

Larry Hall cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 22 21:48:00 GMT 2004


At 03:29 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
>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)


Yeah, I wasn't even going to go there, since this is an advanced feature
and it wasn't clear (to me) that Ed was looking for it.  Guess that just 
proves I'm meaner than you Chris.  Must be that new job of yours. ;-)

> 

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