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Re: _fnctl64 cannot be found


On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote:

> At 04:31 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
> >I just upgraded from 1.5.5 cygwin to 1.5.7 cygwin.
> >When I try to run it I get _fnctl64 can not be found
> >errors.
> >
> >The reason I upgraded was because I was trying to
> >compile code that was using the >2GB calls like
> >lseek64, fstat64, open64, ...
> >
> >What am I missing in my cygwin build, because of these
> >errors?
>
>
> You can't have upgraded from anything more than Cygwin 1.3.22
> if you're getting this complaint when you run.  64 bit file
> operations were introduced for 1.5.1.  You apparently have an
> old DLL hanging around somewhere.  Find it.  Delete it.  If
> you cannot find it, you may just need to reboot (because
> you didn't after setup asked you to).  If that's not it,
> throw out your computer and buy a new one.  It's apparently
> broken (i.e. there's no other reason for this kind of problem).
> --
> Larry Hall

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> Most likely your cygwin1.dll wasn't replaced by the upgrade because it was
> in use by one or more Cygwin processes.  The latest part of setup log
> (/var/log/setup.log) should contain "reboot replacement" if that is the
> case.  Simply reboot.  It's also possible (but very unlikely) that you
> have more than one version of cygwin1.dll on your system.
>
> For the future, it would have been easier if you had attached the output
> of "cygcheck -svr" to your bug report, as requested in the Cygwin problem
> reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
>         Igor

LOL.  Larry, we have got to stop doing this[*].  You take the even days,
and I'll take the odd ones, ok? ;-)
	Igor
[*] The above replies are essentially the same, and posted withing a
minute of each other.  And this isn't the first time, either.
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