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Re: CAUTION: A word about replacing the Cygwin1.dll
- To: Cygwin Users <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: CAUTION: A word about replacing the Cygwin1.dll
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:40:12 -0600
- Organization: -ENOENT
- References: <3B0BF143.AD39C7FF@yahoo.com>
Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> I've noticed several occurrences of "After I replaced cygwin1.dll by the
> old version everything was worked again."
>
> I just want to caution you that just replacing the cygwin1.dll may cause
> you problems when building other packages as the glue that supports the
> cygwin1.dll API may have also changed.
Why doesn't the DLL name change when the ABI breaks?
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