Updated cygwin dlls don't have the .dll extension; instead have .dll.new

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Mon Dec 25 06:04:00 GMT 2006


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According to Charli Li on 12/24/2006 1:39 PM:
>  Fishy enough, the new dlls had a filename extension of .dll.new

Which means Windows is scheduled to rename it automatically at the next
reboot, since it was in use at the time you ran setup.exe.  Didn't you
read the message box that setup told you to reboot?

> Bottom line: Is this a problem with setup.exe?  CCing to cygwin-apps as
> well.

No, this is not a setup bug, but a Windows limitation.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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