Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/12/16/11:21:02
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:07:44AM -0600, David Nelson wrote:
>There is no question; only a report.
>
>I re-installed a new version of Cygwin (into f:\cygwin) after a recent
>but long overdue
>upgrade of the "base" caused 'makes' on my C project to begin failing
>in strange ways.
>The details of the failures are lost to my memory since I began
>hunting around on this for several
>weeks, but involved make [***] "Error 1" with no more details.
>
>When I discovered the simplest helloworld.c would not
>compile--although gcc-3 compeleted with
>no errors, but with no .o or .exe either--I rolled back cygwin and
>gcc-3 to their immediately prior
>versions.
>
>When that failed too, I uninstalled f:\cgywin entirely, including the
>HKLM, HKCU entries
>for Cygnus Solutions. I reinstalled the latest version, along with gcc-3.
>
>Still, gcc-3 helloworld.c in the new install failed the same way: no
>errors, no output.
>
>Searching the web and the Cygwin archvies turned up:
> cygcheck -svrh gcc-3 [thank you!]
>which reported that f:/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll was hiding c:\windows\cygwin1.dll.
>
>"Good," I thought "new should hide old."
>
>However, renaming /bin/cygwin1.dll to /bin/cygwin1.dll_ to unhide the
>older version
>resulted in gcc-3 succeeding.
>
>ListDLLS (from sysinternals.com) cannot come up with a version number
>in /bin/cygwin1.dll,
>but says c:\windows\cygwin1.dll is 1005.25.0000.0000.
>
>However, ls -l shows:
>$ ls -l /bin/cygwin1.dll_
>-rwxr-x---+ 1 adm Users 1872884 Jun 12 2008 /bin/cygwin1.dll_*
>
>$ ls -l /cygdrive/c/windows/cygwin1.dll
>-rwx------+ 1 adm None 1873396 Mar 5 2008 /cygdrive/c/windows/cygwin1.dll*
The correct thing to do here is *remove* c:/windows/cygwin1.dll. Otherwise
you will have strange problems every time you install a new version of cygwin.
cgf
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