Problem rolling back cygwin from 1.5.7.1 to 1.5.5.1

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

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Charles Plager wrote:
|     Since I've been having so much trouble with many different versions
| of emacs, I decided to try to go back to cygwin 1.5.5.1 using setup.exe.
| It installs without any complaints and tells me to reboot before using.
|  So after rebooting, I keep getting an error message popping up when I
| try to use bash or calling commands from perl:
|
| (title) Sh.exe: Entry Point Not Found
| (body) The procedure entry point _fcntl64 could not be located in the
| dynamically linked library cygwin1.dll.
|
|     Upgrading back to 1.5.7.1 solves this problem.  Has this been seen
| before?  Is it possible to successfully downgrade cygwin back to
| 1.5.5.1? (Has anyone been having problems with emacs and 1.5.5.1?)

You need to roll back the 'ash' package to the previous version as well,
20031007-1.  This can be done with setup.exe.

The current 20040127-1 version was built for Cygwin 1.5.7 and is one of
a few programs that aren't backwards compatible with earlier versions of
the DLL.

Hope this helps!

Yaakov


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