RE: Rebuilding Cygwin From Sources

On 24 July 2006 18:43, CARTER Alan wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps someone who knows can confirm that I've got this right: > > The executables in a Cygwin download can be much older than the download > date, where "much" > 3 years. Yep. Unless something goes wrong with the efforts to maintain backw

Re: Rebuilding Cygwin From Sources

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, CARTER Alan wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps someone who knows can confirm that I've got this right: > > The executables in a Cygwin download can be much older than the download > date, where "much" > 3 years. > > This suggests that executables are only rebuilt when their own sources