Re: upgrade question

2003-07-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 20:22, Max Bowsher wrote: > Rob Clack wrote: > > Thank you for this. However, I managed to find a disaster in there > > despite everything. :o( > > > > I renamed the whole e:\cygwin tree to e:\old_cygwin. I had to rerun the > > install several times, for reasons I need not

Re: upgrade question

2003-07-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Rob Clack wrote: > Thank you for this. However, I managed to find a disaster in there > despite everything. :o( > > I renamed the whole e:\cygwin tree to e:\old_cygwin. I had to rerun the > install several times, for reasons I need not go into. Eventually it > got to the end and said "I found a

Re: upgrade question

2003-07-29 Thread Rob Clack
Thank you for this. However, I managed to find a disaster in there despite everything. :o( I renamed the whole e:\cygwin tree to e:\old_cygwin. I had to rerun the install several times, for reasons I need not go into. Eventually it got to the end and said "I found an old cygwin, shall I del

Re: upgrade question

2003-07-25 Thread Larry Hall
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Rob Clack wrote: Can I just rename my old cygwin directory tree (E:\cygwin) to something else and install the latest in its place? I did read somewhere that you shouldn't have two cygwin1.dlls, hence the question. Thanks in advance Rob Yes, you

Re: upgrade question

2003-07-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > [snip] > If you want to be completely safe, rename the old cygwin1.dll to, say, > old-cygwin1.dll (I have a few on my system, no problems yet). ^ Just to be completely clear (for the archives), I have a few

Re: upgrade question

2003-07-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Rob Clack wrote: > We have a large c/unix application which uses gtk and which has been > ported to Windows. Our gtk is ancient, as is our cygwin, and we're > looking to upgrade both. > > The cygwin was, I gather, seriously hacked (some time ago) to get it to > work, and I do