It works now?? It was four weeks ago when I discovered this problem. Today I installed the latest cygwin so that I could investigate the problem in depth. Now everything works fine? Don't know why and I not going to worry about it. FWIW I'm running 1.5.5 now and I was having problems with 1.3.22. Also, related to another thread, the installation of 1.5.5 hung at 99% complete on one of the XFree86 sh scripts. I killed and sh in the task manager and completed the install. Everything seems to work.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:55 PM Subject: Re: how do I use two versions of cygwin on one machine? > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:23:24PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > >>Jim Perkins wrote: > >>>I looked in the FAQ, I searched the archives, and I searched on > >>>deja.com with no luck. I have been using cygwin for quite a while and > >>>I'm dependent on it. Recently I started working with a new single > >>>board computer. The compile environment is an older version of cygwin. > >>>More recent versions of cygwin don't work properly for this compiling > >>>task. I don't mind using an older version but the one the manufacturer > >>>sent is very stripped down and is basically only good for running > >>>"make". So, I figured I could just have two versions of cygwin on my > >>>machine and only use one at a time. So far I have not been able to do > >>>it. Any suggestions? > >> > >>Short answer: You can't. > >> > >>Long answer: There are ways, but they are *very* inelegant. > >>Essentially, you would have to manually switch the data stored in the > >>registry to that for the appropriate version of Cygwin. Naturally, > >>close all cygwin processes whilst doing so. If you have the Cygwin bin > >>directory in PATH, you will have to change that too, every time. > >> > >>If you do take this route, be very aware that list explicitly does not > >>support modified installs of Cygwin like the above. > > > >If you install the two versions as two different users and are willing > >to switch users whenever you want to switch the versions, you may not > >have to do the above as long as the user mounts are set up correctly. > >Just make sure you don't have the two versions of cygwin1.dll loaded at > >the same time (e.g., don't run any services). > > I have a more generic question. Newer cygwin DLLs are supposed to work > with older applications. What specific problem are you having with the > older app? You only say that it doesn't "work properly". > > We want to fix cygwin so that this doesn't happen. > > What is your specific problem? > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
