Hi Chris, Following your announcement in the cygwin-1.5.18-1 update
> cgf: Fix bug which stopped dlopen() from using standard Windows > mechanism for finding a DLL. I can confirm that my problem is now fixed. Thanks! Tim. On 2 June 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:33:55AM +0100, Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On 26 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >> I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities > >> available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed > >> is below. > >> [...] > > > >> cgf: Make dlopen search /usr/bin (for Windows compatibility) > >> and /usr/lib (for UNIX compatibility). > > > >The change seems to be a bit more drastic than that implies to me. I > >believe that previously dlopen searched $PATH before, but it > doesn't any > >more. > > > >I have a Cygwin program that loads a Windows DLL > (afsauthent.dll) that > >it used to find via the $PATH (found in C:\Program > Files\OpenAFS\Common, > >which OpenAFS adds to the Windows PATH, and is inherited by Cygwin). > >That stopped working recently (Win32 error 126), probably > when I updated > >to cygwin-1.5.17-1 (I can check if this is in any doubt). > > > >I can get it working again if I add /cygdrive/c/Program > >Files/OpenAFS/Common to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH by hand. > > > >Is this change deliberate? I would have thought that "Windows > >compatibility" ought to include searching the PATH. > > It was not deliberate and, in fact, the change in behavior had nothing > to do with the change to make dlopen search /usr/bin and /usr/lib. It > was, however, another change of mine so I still have to take > the blame. > > I've checked in a fix. It will be in the next snapshot. > > cgf ============================== cut here ============================== Tim Adye, BaBar Group, Particle Physics Dept., _ /| Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. \'o.O' Oop! e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =(___)= Ack! WWW: http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/Delphi/Adye/homepage.html U Thphft! -- 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/