Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020615213447.06023548@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:42:25 -0400 To: Rasjid Wilcox , "'cygwin-xfree Mailing List'" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Cut down xfree server for XDMCP only Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <200206160101.25136.rasjidw@openminddev.net> References: <200206160030.35183.rasjidw@openminddev.net> <001901c2145d$83bef880$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <200206160030.35183.rasjidw@openminddev.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:01 AM 6/15/2002, Rasjid Wilcox wrote: >On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 12:30 am, Rasjid Wilcox wrote: >> For example, MySQL use the cygwin dll for their windows >> port (see http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html) but they are >> using cygwin 1.3.9 not the current version. This could cause problems in >> the future if someone does not keep their mysql setup up to date but also >> uses Cygwin and does keep it up to date (or vice-versa). >> > >Actually, I just checked a bit more carefully. They host the source for >cygwin 1.3.9, but it looks to me like the actual dll they use is B19 (or at >least, it is named cygwinb19.dll - perhaps they have a more recent one and >just name it that for compatibility??). It's possible. cygwin1.dll is binary compatible with B19 so they might just slip in a more current Cygwin DLL by renaming cygwin1.dll to cygwinb19.dll. This avoids a recompile and uses the new DLL. There are other ways around this (like editing the binary and replacing all occurrences of "cygwinb19.dll" with "cygwin1.dll " - spacing is important!) But a simple recompile and relink is the best course of action. With B19 so far in the past, it makes no sense to force these contortions/problems on users, assuming they are still using the B19 DLL in name at least. You'd do well to ask them about this. >Someone please tell me I'm wrong, but won't this potentially cause serious >problems if someone is running mysql (assuming it really is using B19) and >also tries to run an up-to-date cygwin install? You're not wrong. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/