From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23381 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2002 13:59:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 23327 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2002 13:58:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ligarius-fe0.ultra.net) (146.115.8.189) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2002 13:58:58 -0000 Received: from enterprise-e.rfk.com (209-122-233-116.s1926.apx2.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com [209.122.233.116]) by ligarius-fe0.ultra.net (8.8.8/ult/n26500/mtc.v2) with ESMTP id JAA25434; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:58:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020424095245.02ba9de8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:17:00 -0000 To: "Gareth Pearce" , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: hmmm possible gpl problem? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01348.txt.bz2 At 01:05 AM 4/24/2002, Gareth Pearce wrote: >>In the case of the vcdimager issue recently discussed on this list, I >>was downloading it *because I wanted to used it*, and when I installed >>it, it didn't work: cygwin DLL conflicts. This clued me that the >>program (a) used cygwin [Cool!!] and (b) distributed cygwin1.dll >>[conflicted with my "real" cygwin installation; not cool.] I was > >maybe this is what caused the program to crash when i ran it, but i suspect not, since its linked against cygwin.dll - not cygwin1.dll, which i wouldnt expect to conflict with my cygwin1.dll (Although maybe i am just plain wrong:P). It's the latter. ;-) It doesn't matter what the name of the DLL is. Special steps need to be taken to avoid the internals of 2 Cygwin DLLs from conflicting with each other. While this may have been done in this case, it's some effort so it's unlikely. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/