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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:40:12 -0600
From: Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>
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To: Cygwin Users <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: CAUTION: A word about replacing the Cygwin1.dll
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> I've noticed several occurrences of "After I replaced cygwin1.dll by the
> old version everything was worked again."
> 
> I just want to caution you that just replacing the cygwin1.dll may cause
> you problems when building other packages as the glue that supports the
> cygwin1.dll API may have also changed.  

Why doesn't the DLL name change when the ABI breaks?
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