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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 18:36:32 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies
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In-Reply-To: <3B3A5F4E.F227AB1A@nc.rr.com>; from gsmith@nc.rr.com on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:33:50PM -0400

If this method works for everyone, could someone provide a nice
HTML version of these instructions?

Anyone want to help me out in maintaining the web pages?

I forget if someone volunteered to do this already.  Feel free to
(gasp!) send me private email if you want to volunteer for something.
Just this once!

cgf

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:33:50PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
>Missed a command in step (2), let me try again
>
>This is what I do, especially when I'm behind a firewall and
>can't get out on the cvs port.
>
>(1) I get the latest snapshot via ftp from a cygwin mirror site
>    and put it in the \cygwin directory
>(2) I bring up a cygwin window and do:
>    cd /
>    rm -Rf src
>    rm -Rf obj
>    mkdir src
>    mkdir obj
>    cd src
>    tar jzvf ../cygwin-src-yyyymmdd.tar.bz2
>(3) cd /obj
>    /src/configure --prefix=/tmp/cygwin && make && make install
>    and exit the cygwin window
>(4) from a windows command prompt I then do
>    copy \cygwin\tmp\cygwin\bin\* \cygwin\bin\*
>(5) Fire up a new cygwin window and run `cygcheck -s' to verify
>    the snapshot level and build date (which is near the bottom
>    of the display).
>
>If there are patches that I want, then I can usually save them
>from an attachment in a cygwin or cygwin-patches post, usually
>in my \cygwin directory.  Usually the patches hit src/winsup/cygwin.
>So, before step (3) I do
>    cd /src/winsup/cygwin
>    patch < /whatever.patch
>
>Greg
>
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