upgrade question

Larry Hall cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 25 23:04:00 GMT 2003


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Rob Clack wrote:


<snip>


>>Can I just rename my old cygwin directory tree (E:\cygwin) to something
>>else and install the latest in its place?  I did read somewhere that you
>>shouldn't have two cygwin1.dlls, hence the question.
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>Rob
> 
> 
> Yes, you can.  If you want to be completely safe, rename the old
> cygwin1.dll to, say, old-cygwin1.dll (I have a few on my system, no
> problems yet).


Right.  The issue isn't duplicate DLLs.  The issue is using duplicate
DLLs.  Just make sure that you're new installation can't see the old and
that you don't run apps that can find the other DLL.  There can be only
1 Cygwin DLL loaded at a time.



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