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Re: 'Wrong' dll names in 4.3.0-1 packages -> breaks all 3rd partyXapps


Ton,

See the following announcement:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-08/msg00041.html


I made an XFree86-lib-compat-4.3.0-1 package available that has the old DLLs in it. Please install it and see if it fixes your problem.



Thanks for testing,


Harold

Ton van Overbeek wrote:

Christopher Faylor wrote:

That's interesting.  What third party apps would be specifically linking
to cygwin-xfree DLLs?

Examples: gs.exe (ghostscript), xdvi.exe (from TeTeX), fvwm etc.


Harold Hunt wrote:

No. Older X apps will need to be recompiled for 4.3.0. This is a change
that needed to happen. In the meantime, you can keep the old DLLs in the
same directory and it will allow older X apps to run side by side with
new X apps.


Understood. But when you upgrade via setup.exe the old dll's are removed.
Maybe we need a separate lib package with the 4.2 libraries for the old
apps. There is no way to get both the old and new dll's installed
simultaneously using setup.exe.

Ton van Overbeek



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