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Re: Resurrect discussion: Mixing 32 and 64 bit distro
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:41:11 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> I realize I'm chiming in late here, but I'm going to shock everybody and
> actually *agree* with Yaakov.
WHAT?!? Nah, must be an impostor. What did you do with the real
Chuck? :-)
> "I can't run stuff from /cygdrive/c/cygwin32/bin when I'm in a cygwin64
> shell"
Simple apps do run using the cygwin1.dll, but obviously the mount
table are different and won't IPC with 64-bit apps.
> "I ran setup64.exe to upgrade my existing (32bit) cygwin installation
> and now it's all broken."
I think we can (and should) make sure that setup won't do that.
Yaakov