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-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:55:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: Alan Larkin Subject: Re: Old Cygwin Versions -or- Elusive Compatability Problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <005301c459e6$1eeec090$5f8401c1@elmoii> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Alan Larkin wrote: > [snip] > > So the question is either what could be causing this problem, OR how do we > > get older versions of the Cygwin dll? Apologies. I sent off the message without answering the second part of this question. The answer is simple: stale mirrors. Just do a web search for "cygwin-1.5.5-1.tar.bz2", and use the resulting mirrors (Google lists quite a few on the first page of hits, some may have been updated since) to install the older versions of stuff. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/