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Re: recompiling cygwin dll problems
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:29:00PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:44:47PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>>>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.
>
>Actually, that isn't entirely true or you wouldn't be able to run the
>test suite. Looking at the test suite scripts might be instructive.
>
>cgf
>(Who knows he'll regret even mentioning this)
Oh, and, in the case of multiple DLLs, in theory, the DLL is supposed to
print an error, not just mysteriously die.
cgf
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