At 02:54 AM 4/13/2005, you wrote: >2. We reverted then to an older downloaded cygwin which we with success >have >installed on a number of PCs. After installing this on the new machine we >get the >following message when starting a bash terminal: > > "The procedure entry point _impure_ptr could not be located in the >dynamic link > library cygwin1.dll". > >3. Clicking through these error messages (caused by uname.exe, >tty,exe,hostname.exe, >sort.exe,cat.exe and id.exe) everything appears to be fine. >
<snip> >Does anyone know why this is happening Sure. Sounds like you just installed the older version of the Cygwin DLL with all the current versions of all the other packages. The older DLL doesn't have the _impure_ptr symbol that the new executables expect. If you're going to stick with the downgraded version of the Cygwin DLL, you'll need some matching era packages to go with it. But there's no reason to go to all that trouble. Just rerun 'setup.exe' and upgrade the Cygwin package (and only the Cygwin package). The upgrade should go smoothly and the result will be what you want. Of course, if you're running any cygwin app or service when you upgrade, you won't see the benefits until you reboot. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/