Problem rolling back cygwin from 1.5.7.1 to 1.5.5.1

Tue Feb 10 17:34:00 GMT 2004

Larry Hall wrote:
> At 09:07 AM 2/10/2004, Charles Plager you wrote:
>>>Hello,
>> Since I've been having so much trouble with many different versions of emacs, I decided to try to go back to cygwin 1.5.5.1 using setup.exe. It installs without any complaints and tells me to reboot before using. So after rebooting, I keep getting an error message popping up when I try to use bash or calling commands from perl:
>>>>(title) Sh.exe: Entry Point Not Found
>>(body) The procedure entry point _fcntl64 could not be located in the dynamically linked library cygwin1.dll.
>>>> Upgrading back to 1.5.7.1 solves this problem. Has this been seen before? 
>>>> A good way to answer questions like this for yourself is to check the
> email archives. 

I tried to do just that. Part of the problem is that if you search for 
version numbers (say 1.5.7), the search engine isn't set up for that:
Search results
No matches were found for '1 and 5 and 7'
Rolling back 'ash' seems to have done the trick. Thanks Yaakov.
	Charles
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