Re: Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM Brian Inglis wrote: How to Teach a Maintainer to Fish for Cygwin Package Info > > ========================================================= > > Search the Cygwin ML inboxes for package history: > > https://inbox.sourceware.org/cygwin{-announce,-apps,-patches,}/?q=distcc > > > also look at the Cygwin Time Machine install info URIs: > > https://cygwin.com/install.html#unsupported > > and in this case you have to go back to W 2K/NT 5/XP SP2 Cygwin 1.7.18 CTM CTHFB > URI: > > http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2013/06/04/121035 > > which is the last entry that shows distcc, where you can download > > .../x86/setup.ini > > which has the entry: > > @ distcc > sdesc: "A fast, free, distributed C/C++ compiler" > ldesc: "A program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or > Objective C++ code across several machines on a network" > category: Devel > requires: popt > version: 2.18.3-1 > install: release/distcc/distcc-2.18.3-1.tar.bz2 181098 > c5b9509fb5dfd30d2d76d3846832d771 > source: release/distcc/distcc-2.18.3-1-src.tar.bz2 350105 > 134a64b97ea4613bba3bf0a42fd61856 > > and points to the source package including distcc.cygport or g-b-s script from: > > .../x86/release/distcc/distcc-2.18.3-1-src.tar.bz2 > > and read up on the Cygwin Time Machine to find out how to find more recent > setup.ini captures, contents, and tars. > > As Cygwin is guided by Fedora policies, also look at Fedora 43, main, or rawhide > specs for build variables, scripts, and patches: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/distcc/blob/f43/f/distcc.spec > > You can also request the packages repo maintainer to search for any history they > can restore or recreate for the package.
A wealth of information, thank you Brian, that's very generous of you. I knew about the CTHFB site but was stuck on how to search for packages there. > As Cygwin is guided by Fedora policies That I did not know. If the cygwin release versions track the upstream, there's been a bit of activity, 3.4 is the most recent release on github and CTHFB shows 2.18.3-1. It will take me a little while to wrap my head around all this, but I am happy the get supportive messages like yours and Marco's. Cheers
