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Re: Problem rolling back cygwin from 1.5.7.1 to 1.5.5.1


At 12:34 PM 2/10/2004, Charles Plager you wrote:


>Larry Hall wrote:
>
>>At 09:07 AM 2/10/2004, Charles Plager you wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>  Since I've been having so much trouble with many different versions of emacs, I decided to try to go back to cygwin 1.5.5.1 using setup.exe. It installs without any complaints and tells me to reboot before using.  So after rebooting, I keep getting an error message popping up when I try to use bash or calling commands from perl:
>>>
>>>(title) Sh.exe: Entry Point Not Found
>>>(body) The procedure entry point _fcntl64 could not be located in the dynamically linked library cygwin1.dll.
>>>
>>>  Upgrading back to 1.5.7.1 solves this problem.  Has this been seen before?   
>>
>>A good way to answer questions like this for yourself is to check the
>>email archives. 
>
>I tried to do just that.  Part of the problem is that if you search for version numbers (say 1.5.7), the search engine isn't set up for that:
>
>Search results
>No matches were found for '1 and 5 and 7'


I use google so I wouldn't have noticed that.  Still, you'd probably find 
that searching for "_fcntl64" would be more instructive in any search engine
on this issue.


>Rolling back 'ash' seems to have done the trick.  Thanks Yaakov.


We can all breathe a sigh of relief. ;-)


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