ssh fails to start on Windows XP

[Greg Couch]

So recompiling opensll and openssh didn't fix the problem, but switching 
to a cygwin1.dll snapshot that I downloaded debugging an earlier problem 
from Nov 29, 2013 did fix the problem.  "cygcheck -s -v -r"  for the 
working cygwin1.dll gives:
>  3043k 2013/11/29 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2013-11-29 10:25
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         DLL version: 1.7.26
>         DLL epoch: 19
>         DLL old termios: 5
>         DLL malloc env: 28
>         Cygwin conv: 181
>         API major: 0
>         API minor: 271
>         Shared data: 5
>         DLL identifier: cygwin1
>         Mount registry: 3
>         Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         Program options name: Program Options
>         Installations name: Installations
>         Cygdrive default prefix:
>         Build date:
>         Shared id: cygwin1S5

The 1.7.26-1 version of cygwin package available via the current 
setup-x86.exe does not work.  Nor did the current 1.7.27-2 version. 
Googling, the 0xc0000139 error is a "entry point not found error", so 
something changed between the 1.7.26 snapshot and the official 1.7.26 to 
break ssh on my system.

The only important update that I haven't applied is the "Microsoft 
Office File Validation Add-in" update.  And there are 5 optional updates 
that I haven't applied: "Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on 
Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB2836941)", "Bing Bar 7.3 
(KB2673774)", "Bing Desktop v1.3.1", "Microsoft Silverlight 
(KB2636927)", and "Windows Live Essentials".

     HTH,

     Greg

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