CAUTION: A word about replacing the Cygwin1.dll

Wed May 23 13:32:00 GMT 2001

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:40:12PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>>> I've noticed several occurrences of "After I replaced cygwin1.dll by the
>> old version everything was worked again."
>>>> I just want to caution you that just replacing the cygwin1.dll may cause
>> you problems when building other packages as the glue that supports the
>> cygwin1.dll API may have also changed. 
>>Why doesn't the DLL name change when the ABI breaks?

The ABI has never changed except for the addition of new functions.
cgf
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