clamwin installs incompatible copy of cygwin1.dll

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri Mar 25 04:05:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:13:55PM -0800, Jim Kleckner wrote:
>My question now is, can "ln" be used to work around this issue or is 
>that a "bad idea"?

It's a bad idea.  Just delete the spurious DLL.  No special action is
required if the cygwin dll is in the PATH.

>PS.  Since cgf is steadfast, perhaps this explanation could be added to
>the FAQ entry located here that partially explains why multiple dlls is
>a problem: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC50

No.

cgf

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