On Mar 11 16:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 11 15:14, Greg Chicares wrote: > > On 2011-03-11 14:56Z, Mengsk wrote: > > > > > [...previously-compiled program stopped working after partial Cygwin > > upgrade...] > > > > > > "Cannot find entry point _feinitialise in dynamic link library > > > cygwin1.dll" > > > > Try rebuilding your program from scratch. It sounds like the cygwin1.dll you > > now have (after the upgrade) is a different version than the program > > expects. > > Sounds like an executable built under 1.7.8 trying to be run under an > earlier version. > > Dave, is it really necessary to call _feinitialise in crt0.c? > > We usally have new entry points in newer versions of Cygwin, and we > don't guarantee that applications build under newer DLLs will not run > under older DLLs. However, that doesn'usually mean that these > applications never work, only if they use one of the new entry points. > > With _feinitialise called from crt0.c apps build under 1.7.8 can never > work under earlier DLLs. So my question is, isn't it sufficient to call > _feinitialise from _dll_crt0?
I had a private talk with Dave and it's no problem to move the _feinitialise call into the DLL itself. I applied a patch to Cygwin. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
