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Thanks Dave, What is the proper way to upgrade the DLL?

Dave Korn wrote:
> Pete Brunet wrote:
>   
>> I've been trying to build OpenJDK for several weeks now and have never
>> been able to get to the end of the build because of random failures. 
>> Last night I had a hunch to turn off one of the cores in BIOS and after
>> doing that the problems have gone away.  My system is a Lenovo T500,
>> Model 2081-CTO, with an Intel Core2 Duo P8700 at 2.53 GHz and 2 GB of
>> RAM running XP Pro SP3.  The latest updates have been applied to the
>> Lenovo system and to XP.  Some examples of failures:
>> - empty environment variables
>> - invalid environment variables
>> - files not found (possibly related to corrupted environment variables)
>>
>> Attached is my cygcheck.out file.
>>     
>
>   Well, ...
>
>   
>>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>>         DLL version: 1.5.25
>>     
>
> 1.5 is known to have bugs in this area.  You can give 1.7 a try because I've
> fixed a number of race conditions; I'm pretty sure there are still more to be
> tracked down, but it's a good deal better.
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
>   


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