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Re: Two different cygwin environments
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Andrei Stebakov <lispercat at gmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:17:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Two different cygwin environments
- References: <uhd1en9tt.fsf@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Andrei Stebakov wrote:
> I am using the current cygwin installed by cygwin.exe.
> Also on the same machine I need to use an older versin of Cygwin so I
> wonder what's the best way to have two cygwin environments on the same
> machine, under the same user so they don't collide.
The Cygwin DLL strives to be backward-compatible (i.e., any applications
that run using the older Cygwin1.dll should also run using the newer DLL).
Is there a reason you really need the older DLL around?
Igor
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