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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: John Williams Subject: Re: Obtaining a pervious version Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:24:41 +1000 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3E516F39.1080008@itee.uq.edu.au> References: <3E5024EE.400@itee.uq.edu.au> <20030217145707.GA3647@redhat.com> <3E51599B.5090301@itee.uq.edu.au> <001401c2d6d0$6102a4a0$78d96f83@pomello> <3E5163E3.7000605@itee.uq.edu.au> <001701c2d6d6$403696e0$78d96f83@pomello> <3E516C54.80200@itee.uq.edu.au> <003701c2d6da$f26bc980$78d96f83@pomello> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Max Bowsher wrote: > John Williams wrote: > >>Max Bowsher wrote: >> >>>OK, *now* its pretty obvious what the problem is. Cygwin 1.3.20 is >>>backward compatible with Cygwin 1.3.13, but Cygwin is not and never >>>will be sideways compatible with other slightly modified versions of >>>Cygwin. >>> >>>Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin. >> >>So it seems. I've got to exhaust all other options before I commit to >>that effort. > > > OK, so it's not going to be really easy, but it probably isn't going to be > nightmarishly hard either. Somewhere between heaven and hell! I gather actually that this Xygwin environment doesn't do much more than fiddle with some of the path mapping stuff. Certainly no rocket science going on in there - I think the tool providor's desire was to spare their customers from a full cygwin install, and to lock in a "stable" distro to minimise support calls arising from factors outside their control. This is all just my conjecture. Regards, John -- 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/