On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, David Combs <> wrote: > I just now installed 1.7. > > Where *is* everything? > > bin has 289 files, whereas the non-beta has 1152. > > > > > > So, just how "beta" is 1.7. "Alpha"? > > Or am I missing something, eg there's still lots more > for me to install "by hand"? > > > Oh, someone tell me how to find the version number of a cygwin, > and I can tell you what mine is. (Looks like the most recent > files in bin are 15june09, so pretty darned recent, my "standard" > cygwin.) > > ---- > > Oh, *roughly* when might 1.7 become the standard cygwin? A year > or so? > > > Thanks! > > David >
uname -a to find out what version of the cygwin1.dll you have For example: CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 INCONSPICUOUS 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin My version 1.7 /bin directory has ~ 1000 files in it. You probably just don't have all the packages installed you had for version 1.5. Thanks. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
