At 02:24 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote: >On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:21:58PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >> At 06:29 PM 4/21/2004, you wrote: >> >all, >> > >> >Is there any reason why a recompiled version of cygwin.dll in a non-standard >> >location >> >would cause tools that depend on it to fail? I compiled with a standard: >> > >> >configure --prefix=<my_prefix> >> >make >> >make install >> > >> >I need to remove the compiled dll in order to get anything working again... >> > >> >Also, any debugging tips on tracking this down? If its there, none of the tools >> >work (gdb included), if its not, they don't.. >> > >> >> >> Make sure the tools can see the DLL. Make sure the old DLL is not >> accessible by *any* of the tools. Make sure the new DLL is valid. ;-) > >Well: > >:) they can see the dll, since when I create the dll, everything stops working. > >2) I'm pretty sure its not the old dll, since when I rename the old dll, everything >still stops working. > >3) hence I'm assuming #3 - the new DLL isn't valid. > >I know I'm being vague, but it would be a lot easier for me to issue a bug report/fix >if I had a good way of debugging the cygwin dll. The person who would have an answer >to that question is the writer/maintainer of the cygwin dll who hopefully >chime in at some point as to: > > a) some debugging tips on how to track down cygwin related problems. > > b) whether or not there are some hard-coded values in the cygwin code that > need to be changed to make them portable to different directories. > >Or maybe its neither a nor b.. perhaps there's a runtime component? Perhaps you >can't run two versions of the cygwin dll at one time in separate locations?
Bingo! I guess I should have put an "and" in my first two statements. You can only have *1* DLL built from the Cygwin source resident and running at any one time. It wasn't clear to me that this is what you were doing, otherwise I would have told you that this is a no-no to start with. > >Just guessing here, but enquiring minds want to know... Good guess. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
