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Re: cannot execute binary file


Greetings, Gerry Reno!

> I just got finished installing Cygwin on another machine and this time the -c does work.  So I went back and looked at
> the original machine.  There are 2 cygwin installations on that machine in different directories. I had forgotten that
> Cygwin got installed a while back on this machine to support some app that needed it.  So somehow having 2 different
> installations breaks this mintty -e capability.  Does this qualify as a bug?  Is Cygwin supporting 2 independent
> installations?

It do support two _independent_ installations.
This means, each of them have no way to find out about existence of the other,
barring the full disk search.
Yours were not that independent. Likely, them both were listed in $PATH.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 17.12.2013, <13:31>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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