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/
