On 4/7/2010 5:12 AM, nothize wrote: > After I've replaced(or removed!) %windir%\system32\cygz.dll with the newer > one in Cygwin, git 1.7.0.4 worked well. Perhaps I've manually copied an > older cygz.dll to there sometimes ago.....I can't remember.
The Cygwin setup program never installs files into system32. You most likely have some other piece of software which embedded Cygwin and helpfully broke your general Cygwin installation by installing Cygwin DLLs to system32 for you. If you want to have a functional Cygwin installation, you would be better off removing the offending software and ensuring that all Cygwin DLLs are removed from system32. > Note that I have the registry value to allow "loading DLL from the same > directory preceding the path" but %windir%\system32 is always the first in > the PATH environment variable. This is a well-documented behavior of Windows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586%28VS.85%29.aspx Many of the git subcommands now live in /usr/lib/git-core, so none of the Cygwin DLLs exist in the same directory as the subcommand binaries. If SafeDllSearchMode is disabled, the current directory is searched next, but no one is likely to have copies of Cygwin DLLs in every directory in which they may be running commands. The next fallback in both safe and non-safe mode is the system directory (system32). When the matching DLL is found there, it preempts the use of the DLL you intended to find via PATH. This is why it is BAD, BAD, BAD to install third-party DLLs into system32. :-) -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
