Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990617183544.4774.rocketmail@web801.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:35:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rankin Subject: Re: yikes, what are these? To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 09:53:01AM +0400, Vadim Egorov wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Yes, I had to build one of the recent egcs snapshots from sources but it > >was quite painless. I used Jan 15 cygwin snapshot -- it might have made > >the trick -- and Mumit Khan's egcs-1.1.2 on the top of WinNT 4.0 sp5. > > > >To have the same directory structure as clean B20.1 installation I run > >configure scripts using i586-cygwin32 as host parameter. > > I thought I should point out something, since I have seen an apparent > misconception here a few times. > > If you don't like the default structure that our cygwin releases impose on > you, there is no reason to use it. Personally, I move everything around > to a more "UNIX-like" structure. So, I have a /bin, /usr/bin, > /usr/local/bin, > /usr/local/lib, etc. > > What I'm trying to say, is that, with the possible exception of bison > (which will be fixed in the next release) nothing should be relying > on builtin path names using the funky H-*/i-* subdirectory structure. > Feel free to move things into more UNIX-friendly locations. > > In fact, that's what we'll be doing in the next release. Ok, I'll be the boob to ask the question, although I'll ask it a little differently. Instead of asking "When's the next release scheduled?" (which is, of course, what I *really* want to know ;-), let me ask what's left to do before the next release is made? Rick -- Rick Rankin rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com