Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Michael Ring To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin version confusion Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:05:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id KAA31564 On Thu, 29 Jun 00 15:39:45 +0100, you wrote: >Hello, > >I'm a little confused regarding the versions of Cygwin and pieces that come >with the various products/downloads. I originally installed GNUPro Toolkit >for NT Version 99r1p1. > >bash --help -> GNU bash, version 2.02.1(2)-release-(i686-pc-cygwin32) >uname -r -> 21.0 (0.9/1/2) > >I found this installation lacked several utilities (like man.exe) so I >downloaded and installed (in another directory tree) the latest Cygwin >setup.exe along with several packages I was interested in (fileutils, groff, >etc.). > >bash --help -> GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release-(i586-pc-cygwin) >uname -r -> 1.1.2(0.21/3/2) > >The latest version shows that I'm running a later version of both bash and >Cygwin. The i586-pc-cygwin bothers me a little. I'm on a PIII machine. I >don't recall setup allowing me to indicate what type of machine I'm running. >Did I miss something? No, this information does not come from your system, this information describes the system on which bash was compiled (It is burned into the bash-executeable) Perhaps bash should be repackaged with i686-pc-cygwin to be in sync with all the other packages which are normally configured with i686-pc-cygwin. Michael Ring -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com