After installing Cygwin by using a shell script running by executing
bash from a network-installed Cygwin, the script fails when it tries to
run a post-install script. The error reported is:
bash-2.05b$ post-install.sh -which latest -fresh
c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (3208): *** cygheap version mismatch detected - 0x616D000
0/0x61780000.
You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system.
Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility
and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version *should*
reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have
installed the cygwin distribution.
A search showed that there really is only c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll -
the message is wrong.
I'd say the sanity-check is detecting cygwin1.dll associated with the
bash that's running from the network-mounted drive.
Re-setting PATH to exclude the network Cygwin doesn't help, then doing
an "exec /bin/bash" gives the same error and of course the shell is
gone.
Do I simply have to live with this?
I can work around it by changing a driving .bat file from:
set PATH=...;network-cygwin-path
mount c:/ /
bash my-install-script
to:
set PATH=...;network-cygwin-path
mount c:/ /
bash my-install-script
umount /
set PATH=...;c:\cygwin\bin
bash my-post-install-script
which is clunkier, but will work in many cases.
I don't suppose there's any option to force cygwin to ignore its
erroneous error message?
luke
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