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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: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:32:37 -0400
- References: <3B0BF143.AD39C7FF@yahoo.com> <3B0C121C.4C22A7FB@etr-usa.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:40:12PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>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?
The ABI has never changed except for the addition of new functions.
cgf
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