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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:13:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
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Subject: RE: Should setup.ini say prev to cygwin 1.5.8 is 1.5.5
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If you've installed it before, you might still have 1.5.7 in your package
cache.  Simply select "Install from local directory", and you should be
able to cycle to 1.5.7...
	Igor

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:

> The problem with going back to 1.5.5 is that one starts getting "The
> procedure entry point _fcntl64 could not be located in the dynamic link
> library cygwin1.dll" error message.  I'd hate to have roll everything back
> to the way it was before 1.5.6-1.
>
> I've played with trying to get setup to roll back to 1.5.7-1 by editing
> setup.ini, so far without success.  Any hints would be appreciated.
> (Explicit instructions would be GREATLY appreciated.)  I'd hate to go into
> "unsupported land" by just untaring it outside of setup?
>
> And just for my education, why was 1.5.7-1 thought to be so inferior to
> 1.5.5-1 that it was skipped for prev?  I'm sure that the answer is in the
> cygwin-developers mailing list, but, as a "civilian", I have no access to
> its archives.
>
> - Barry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:58 AM
> To: Brian Keener; cygwin<at>cygwin<dot>com
> Subject: Re: Should setup.ini say prev to cygwin 1.5.8 is 1.5.5
>
>
> At 06:39 PM 3/17/2004, you wrote:
> >Richard Campbell wrote:
> >> >>d:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe (1616): *** m.AllocationBase 0x0, m.BaseAddress 0x616E0000, m.RegionSize 0x1AA0000, m.State 0x10000
> >> >
> >> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01080.html
> >>
> >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01382.html
> >>
> >Thanks both of you for the pointer.  I had not as yet dug into the
> >error but had thought that by mentioning I might get a point but I also
> >see that in so doing I clouded the issue - the true message was the
> >subject:
> >
> >Should the previous version of cygwin 1.5.8 be 1.5.5 or 1.5.7 as far as
> >setup.ini is concerned because setup says it is 1.5.5-1.
> >
> >Thanks again for the pointer.
>
> 1.5.5-1 is the proper previous version, just as it was for 1.5.7.

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