error on installing new packages for the third-party cygwin

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:55:04PM +0800, Liu Haibin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using a product which integrates cygwin. I wanted to install a new
> package into this cygwin but after installation, I got an error
> message when I ran the newly installed package.
> 
> "The procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the
> dynamic link library cygwin1.dll"

I think the package you installed is expecting a newer version of the
cygwin1.dll than your 3PP provided.

Run setup and update only the cygwin package (making sure you can restore
back to the way things were in case the third-party stuff you are using
is for some reason forward-incompatible (which it shouldn't be)).

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