[1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-56

[Paul McFerrin]

I forced a REINSTALL of cygwin1.dll and this time it downloaded the 
correct version.  Everything is fine now.

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 05:15:33PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>   
>> Folks.  Try again with updating 1.7-56.  When it is downloaded from 
>> mirror: mirror.nyi.net, my 1.7 instance of cygwin will nolonger come up!!
>>
>> Using my 1.5 instance,  and the strings command, I check the 1.7.0-56 
>> version of cygwin1.dll and it comes up with:
>>    /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-51,              NOT 56.
>>
>> No comments about using "strings".  If no windows are opening up, I 
>> can't do a "uname -r" on a dead system.  Unless someone comes up with a 
>> *good* reason NOT to use it, it stays in.
>>     
>
> There is no mystery here.  The version of cygwin1.dll that you're
> looking at came from the 1.7.0-51 release.  Maybe you're confused about
> where you should be looking or maybe you have a process running which is
> using this dll and, so, could not have been updated by setup.  If it is
> the latter then rebooting would help.
>
> Regardless, this isn't a problem with the release.  It's a problem with
> your installation.
>
> cgf
>
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