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Re: Please test latest developer snapshot


On 2/27/2011 2:20 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 26 11:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 25 16:09, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> I was able to reproduce this using a clone of the git repository itself:
>>>
>>> % uname -a
>>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 tela 1.7.8s(0.236/5/3) 20110221 20:36:00 i686 Cygwin
>>> % git clone git://github.com/git/git.git
>>> Cloning into git...
>>> remote: Counting objects: 134689, done.
>>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39672/39672), done.
>>> remote: Total 134689 (delta 100250), reused 126970 (delta 93150)
>>> Receiving objects: 100% (134689/134689), 28.44 MiB | 621 KiB/s, done.
>>> Resolving deltas: 100% (100250/100250), done.
>>> % cd git/
>>> % git log
>>>       0 [main] git 3088 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487
>>
>> Thanks for the report.  I can reproduce this under Windows XP but
>> not under Windows 7.  Stay tuned.
> 
> Please test the latest developer snapshot.  It contains a fix which is
> supposed to fix the problem.  It looks like there's a bug in the winmm
> DLL, at least in older versions.  I found a workaround which shouldn't
> work, but it does.  If you're interested in the technical details,
> see the thread starting here:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-02/msg00007.html
> 
> If it works for you, and still works for others, I'll release 1.7.8 ASAP.

Works here. Thanks for the quick fix!

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