cannot execute binary file

[Tim Prince]

On 12/17/2013 4:32 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Gerry Reno!
>
>> I just got finished installing Cygwin on another machine and this time the -c does work.  So I went back and looked at
>> the original machine.  There are 2 cygwin installations on that machine in different directories. I had forgotten that
>> Cygwin got installed a while back on this machine to support some app that needed it.  So somehow having 2 different
>> installations breaks this mintty -e capability.  Does this qualify as a bug?  Is Cygwin supporting 2 independent
>> installations?
> It do support two _independent_ installations.
> This means, each of them have no way to find out about existence of the other,
> barring the full disk search.
> Yours were not that independent. Likely, them both were listed in $PATH.
>
>
This thread reminded me that I faced the similar problem.  Being lazy 
and not figuring out how to include the path to cygwin1.dll when running 
Intel VTune profiler, I copied the .dll to the existing PATH, thus 
breaking the installation when next running setup.

-- 
Tim Prince


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