Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:47:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to install packages... Message-ID: <20020921014740.GE23997@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1032572115.9573.5.camel@h24-69-127-23> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1032572115.9573.5.camel@h24-69-127-23> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:35:15PM -0700, Bruce Alderson wrote: >>How about "Run Cygwin Setup"? It's pretty self-explanatory from then >>on... :-) > >You'd actually be suprised ;-P I know that my eyebrows have just hit the ceiling. >We use cyg and the Gnu autotools for building our product on Win32 ... >and I find myself walking devs through the effort of setting cyg up >(and then later helping them set it up /properly/). Sounds like your installation is only halfway operational to me. Maybe that's part of your problem. When you install the 'win' part of cygwin it works much better. >I know that setup.exe doesn't currently support batch operations ... >how much effort would it be to add? Is it planned? Is there a better >way to install it in a batch manner? Eureka! Batch operations! Gary! Nevermind! We have a replacement for the resizeable chooser screen discussion. And to think I almost forgot this one. Ahhhhhh... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/