On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > > > I ran cygcheck on cygpath, and was surprised to discover > > that it has a dependence on msvcrt (as well as cygwin1): > > > > $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe > > D:/cygwin/bin/cygpath.exe > > D:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll > > D:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll > > D:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL > > D:\WINNT\system32\SHELL32.DLL > > D:\WINNT\system32\GDI32.DLL > > D:\WINNT\system32\USER32.DLL > > D:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL > > D:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL > > D:\WINNT\system32\SHLWAPI.DLL > > D:\WINNT\system32\msvcrt.dll > > D:\WINNT\system32\COMCTL32.DLL > > > > I thought that using the msvcrt and cygwin1 dll's in > > the same executable was likely to cause crashes or hangs - > > is this no longer the case, or could this be the problem > > with the postinstall? > > > > -- Cliff > > Wow! Good thinking, Cliff! I think you may be on to something... > ISTM that the problem could manifest itself when running from setup as > opposed to from the shell because setup is a Windows program, so some > MSVCRT functions may be found before the Cygwin ones... We could test by > using "cygstart cygpath" or "run cygpath" or something. > Igor
Oh, and this might explain why I'm not seeing the hang on my machine: $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe C:/cygwin/bin/cygpath.exe C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL C:\WINNT\System32\SHELL32.DLL C:\WINNT\System32\GDI32.DLL C:\WINNT\System32\USER32.DLL C:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.DLL C:\WINNT\System32\SHLWAPI.DLL C:\WINNT\System32\COMCTL32.DLL $ cygpath --version cygpath (cygwin) 1.29 Path Conversion Utility Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc. Compiled on Sep 20 2003 $ cygcheck -cd cygwin Cygwin Package Information Package Version cygwin 1.5.5-1 $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 pechtcha 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin $ I'm running on Win2k, which may be significant. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/