>Andrew Hunt <Andy / toolshed.com> wrote:
    >> What do you do if you are running an incompatible version of 
    >> the Cygnus utilities?
    >
    >It's my impression that as long as you install the .dll in the same 
    >directory as the executables, that they will be found there before
    >looking in some more global location.  So I just put the .dll in
    >the \bin\ directory of Ruby and haven't seen any problems.

Which is, in fact, where I put the dll in the InstallShield version.
The problem is, I also put that bin directory in the PATH, so the cygnus
stuff stumbles across it and dies.

Now, at the moment (and contrary to my usual Unix philosophy), I am
putting Ruby at the head of the PATH.  If I put it at the end, and you
are right, then Ruby should look for it's dll first next to it's bin,
and cyguns will find their own dll's as usual before stumbling on to ours,
and everybody is happy.

Does that sound right?   (Conrad, could you try this out?)

/\ndy