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Re: setup + mingwc10.dll + windows 98 = crash!!


On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:37:34PM -0500, Tim Horton wrote:
>>Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com> wrote:
>>Basically, you are mentioning "mingwc10.dll" but I don't
>>understand why.
>
>mingwc10.dll is in cygwin.1.1.1.tar.gz, which setup installs.

I'm sorry.  I didn't understand that it was the extraction of
mingwc10.dll that was causing your problem.  I should have remembered
that as previous problem reports also indicated this.

>To reiterate a bit more clearly, setup hangs my machine every
>time it gets to cygwin.1.1.tar.gz, specifically (I am 99% certain)
>when it gets to mingwc10.dll in that file.  Apparently setup.exe
>tries to copy this DLL to /bin, and any copying or other reading
>of that file from disk simply hangs windows 98, which I have
>verified by hand any number of times under different circumstances.

Ok.  Now I understand the magic DLL problem.  This is very strange.

>Are you suggesting then that I delete it from cygwin-1.1.1.tar.gz?
>If I can assume setup will not barf if I modify the tar files
>(I know nothing about the program or what checks it does),
>I suppose I could try to unzip the file, tar --delete mingwc10.dll,
>and rezip it.  Is that your suggestion?

I wasn't suggesting that but it does sound like a plan.  You could
try:
	tar -f cygwin-1.1.1.tar.gz --delete usr/bin/mingwc10.dll

and then running "setup cygwin" to extract it (use the 'd' for disk
option).

>I'm beginning to suspect it interacts badly with McAfee virus scan.
>That would explain why reading it in any way hangs my system.
>I have the very latest McAfee virus update data files.

I think that someone else reported this too.  Is there any way that you
could disable McAfee and try this?

>>The task manager will show you what is running.
>
>It shows nothing for cygwin.  Everything there is familiar.

Ok.  It doesn't sound like a cygwin-is-running issue anyway.

cgf

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