From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: strange ezwinports issue Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:48:21 +0300 Message-ID: <834mj25iga.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87egiat9ir.fsf@gmail.com> <83vbbm6opj.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbbl1umd.fsf@gmail.com> <83si6p7cfm.fsf@gnu.org> <8737ym1cse.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441903739 1468 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2015 16:48:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:48:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 18:48:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Za51h-0004he-Vt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:48:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za51h-00081h-Cz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za51W-00081a-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:48:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za51T-0001co-Fp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:58816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za51T-0001cD-8a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NUG00N00ZRIKR00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:45:06 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NUG00A6GZV6PDD0@mtaout27.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:45:06 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <8737ym1cse.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107122 Archived-At: > From: Sivaram Neelakantan > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:34:17 +0530 > > > There was no change that necessitated this. What this experiment > > means is that you have a small "DLL hell" on your hands: you have an > > incompatible copy of some DLL that is used by some of the ezwinports > > that lives in some other directory which is closer to the beginning of > > your PATH than the ezwinports' bin/ directory. So when Emacs loads, > > say, libgnutls-28.dll, and looks for its dependency DLLs, it finds > > that incompatible DLL first, tries to load it, which fails (due to > > whatever makes it incompatible), and then the load of libgnutls-28.dll > > fails because of that. > > > > Right but this is a bit confusing. You see, the version that I was > using earlier had all the DLLs under ezwinports and NOT under the > Emacs bin directory. I renamed it as ezwinportsold and the downloaded > one as ezwinports. At this point it stopped working. If I rename the > old one back as ezwinports again, it works. > > Why does this work then? Probably because the previous DLLs didn't depend on that incompatible DLL which gives you trouble now.