cygwin_create_path import stops executable from running on 1.5 since 1.7.0-63

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Nov 16 00:17:00 GMT 2009


On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:53:24PM -0800, Martin Dorey wrote:
>>Before the reloc changes, you'd already get an error if your program
>>used ctype functions.
>
>Thinking it might be useful to get the error messages into the
>googlotron, I tried to demonstrate this with little programs like this:
>
>$ cat /tmp/ctype.c
>#include <ctype.h>
>
>int main() {
>  return tolower(' ');
>}
>$
>
>I didn't have any problems running any of them with 1.5, whose
>cygwin1.dll exports many plausible-looking names from ctype.h.

As Andy said, Cygwin 1.7 is not designed to be backwards compatible with
1.5.

cgf

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