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RE: A vexing installation problem
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:38:24 -0000
- Subject: RE: A vexing installation problem
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of fergus@bonhard
> Sent: 30 November 2004 13:14
> On my system I have so contrived things that I have exactly
> one (yes promise
> and hope to die horribly) exactly one cygwin1.dll and there
> ain't nothing
> else at all, anywhere. Cygwin is not installed. The dll
> (latest issue 1.5.12
> but not a snapshot) lives by itself with cygcheck.exe in a
> subdirectory.
> There is no mention of [cC]ygwin or [cC]ygnus anywhere in the
> registry.
>
> Moving to that subdirectory and typing
> cygcheck -s
> gives
> Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path
> in the output.
> Weirdly (?) the "Cygwin DLL version info"
> is provided *twice*, and then comes the Warning message.
Probably a false alarm. When you cd /bin and run cygcheck, it gives loads
of false warnings about "./<some_executable> overrides
/bin/<same_executable>" because it hasn't realised there are two different
paths to the same file. Is '.' in your $PATH?
cheers,
DaveK
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