Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/10/26/23:06:40
Make a copy of your b20.1 directory into a new directory.
Install the files from the cygwin-inst tarball overtop of the files in the new
directory.
It sounds as if you may have to untar the tarball into a temporary directory
and move the files to your current directory setup under the new directory.
This isn't bad, and what I would do anyway.
Earnie.
PS: Be sure to read the caveats at the
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots page.
--- Jon Leichter <jon AT symas DOT com> wrote:
> Hi Earnie.
>
> So you've convinced me to upgrade my current installation of Cygwin. So I'm
> browsing around in:
>
> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/snapshots/
>
> and the most recent snapshots that I see are:
>
> cygwin-inst-19991021.tar.gz
> cygwin1-19991024.dll.gz
>
> Well, your web site talks about installing in a "clean environement", and
> this
> is EXACTLY what I'd prefer to do. By "clean environment", I assume you mean
> installing the snapshot into its own directory and running everything from
> there.
>
> The thing is that I've noticed the following about the 'inst' snapshot:
>
> - The directory structure of the tar archive is a little different from
> B20.1.
> The hierarchy of B20.1 (C:\Cygnus\cygwin-b20) looked like this:
>
> H-i586-cygwin32/
> H-i586-cygwin32/bin/
> H-i586-cygwin32/i586-cygwin32/
> H-i586-cygwin32/i586-cygwin32/bin/
> H-i586-cygwin32/i586-cygwin32/include/
> H-i586-cygwin32/i586-cygwin32/lib/
> H-i586-cygwin32/lib/
> H-i586-cygwin32/libexec
> etc/
> include/
> share/
>
> The directory structure of the tar archive looks like this:
>
> bin/
> etc/
> i586-pc-cygwin32/
> i586-pc-cygwin32/lib/
> i586-pc-cygwin32/include
> lib/
>
> It's nice that the hiearchy has been consolidated and condensed a bit, but
> there's a LOT of files in B20.1 that isn't there in the tar archive, like all
> of the files from the 'share' directory. I don't really care too much about
> this, personally, but I wanted to be sure that this is known.
>
> - The 'gcc' compiler and tools do not seem to be anywhere in the tar archive,
> although many of the 'includes' and 'libs' seem to be there. This seems a
> little strange.
>
> - A BUNCH of binaries seem to be missing, including: bash, cp, cat, cmp, cut,
> diff, (the list goes on).
>
> Clearly I must be missing something here. How would it be possible to set up
> a
> "clean installation" if all of the necessary files are not in place?
>
> I feel like the answer to my question should be obvious, but I just can't
> seem
> to figure out what it is.
>
> Jon Leichter
> jon AT symas DOT com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
> > Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 7:36 PM
> > To: Jon Leichter
> > Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > Subject: Re: SIGINT, bash and non-cygwin apps
> >
> > Hi Jon,
> >
> > Try it with one of the newest snapshots. The newer snapshots were
> > included on the announced CD and will become the b21 version.
> > Note: all of the caveats for upgrading exists. There are several
> > changes, some of which I mention on my webpages.
>
>
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