Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:26:42 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Installing previous versions of binutils
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 01:01:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Ian C wrote:
>
>> Sorry if this is a silly question (new to this), I know how to uninstall
>> the binutils 20080624-2 that comes with Cygwin 1.5.25-15. ...but can I use
>> the setup routine to install previous versions of binutils (such as version
>> 20060817-1), which should be compatible with the WxPython application. If I
>> uninstall the latest binutils, how do I get the Cygwin setup program to
>> recognize the 2006 version of binutils.
>
>  On the setup.exe package chooser page, where you click on binutils to set
>the selection to "Uninstall", you can keep clicking and it will cycle through
>all available versions.  Note that the definition of "available" is mode
>sensitive - if you're in "install from internet" or "download from internet"
>mode it'll show you any available versions on the mirror you're using, but if
>you're using "install from local directory" mode it'll only show you any
>versions that you've already downloaded, which might be why you didn't already
>notice this mechanism while you were uninstalling.
>
>  However it seems the only versions left on the mirrors are 20080624 and
>20080523, the 2006 versions have long since gone.  If you really need the old
>versions, you can get them from the "Cygwin time-machine":
>
>    http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwintimemachine
>
>  But probably the best solution would be to download a recent snapshot
>tarball of binutils and build and install it yourself, since it's had a
>boatload of fixes put in earlier this year.  Binutils is fortunately always
>really simple to build, it's one of the packages where you really can just
>"./configure ; make ; make install" and it will reliably "just work".

Either that or move to Cygwin 1.7 which has a fairly recent version of
binutils.

cgf

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