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Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:21:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0307101508280.1846@eos>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 21:51:28 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> By testing. It's save to use older DLLs if they don't expect any of
>> the changed datatypes as parameter or part of a parameter. This
>> part of the application is of course not 64 clean. However, for
>> testing purposes I've build OpenSSH using the current OpenSSL and it
>> still worked fine. Just as a prove of concept.
>>
>
>I tried this with some of our apps too and poof, seg fault. I was just
>hoping someone had already figured out any easy test to see if a dll is
>effected.
>
>I think package maintainers are going to have a hard time figuring out
>when it is safe to recompile under 1.5.0. And I bet there will be some
>circular dependencies.
What's hard? They should be compiling now and releasing a test version,
now.
cgf
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