On Jan 21 15:01, Warren Young wrote: > I got a new machine at work a few weeks ago, and decided to install Cygwin > 1.7 on it, and not even mess with 1.5. Can't test what you don't use, > right? > > For reasons that aren't important here, today I decided I needed a copy of > 1.5 as well. This means I have the reverse of the recommended setup, which > is having 1.5 installed in c:\cygwin, and 1.7 elsewhere. 1.7 on my machine > is in c:\cygwin, and 1.5 is in c:\cygwin-1.5. > > The installation of 1.5 failed in several ways. The way it failed makes me > wonder if some part of the setup process was erroneously referring to stuff > in c:\cygwin instead of c:\cygwin-1.5.
Yes, the reason is that setup looks into c:\cygwin by default and if it finds setup files there, it will use them, even when you change the path. That doesn't occur in the new setup-1.7.exe, but that doesn't help with installing 1.5 after 1.7, of course. What you should do in this case, basically: - Stop all 1.7 processes. - Rename C:\cygwin to C:\cygwin-foo - Start setup for 1.5 - change the installation path to c:\cygwin-1.5 - After the installation, rename C:\cygwin-foo back to C:\cygwin Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
