Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:54:12 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How do I get older cygwin version 1.5.5? Message-ID: <20050118145412.GC27316@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <41536B8D000F8496 AT ims3c DOT cp DOT tin DOT it> <41ED0E0A DOT 3090008 AT lapo DOT it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41ED0E0A.3090008@lapo.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:24:26PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: >A longer one is: hope to find some friend that never upgraded since >1.5.5 and hope he didn't delete the downloaded packages. > >The most correct one, though, is probably: you should compile the DLL >itself (probably taken from the CVS..?) and re-compile also all the >needed packages from sources (you can use the latest version of each >package probably, but must compile it with the correct DLL as changes >are usually backward-compatible but not forward-compatibile). > >Of course "avoiding" to need an old version is the fastest way, and >also the only way to get a system with no known bugs... Right. Can we have a moritorium on telling people who think they need older versions to recompile cygwin and, instead, try to find out why they think they need the old version? cgf -- 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/