On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 01:01:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Ian C wrote: > >> Sorry if this is a silly question (new to this), I know how to uninstall >> the binutils 20080624-2 that comes with Cygwin 1.5.25-15. ...but can I use >> the setup routine to install previous versions of binutils (such as version >> 20060817-1), which should be compatible with the WxPython application. If I >> uninstall the latest binutils, how do I get the Cygwin setup program to >> recognize the 2006 version of binutils. > > On the setup.exe package chooser page, where you click on binutils to set >the selection to "Uninstall", you can keep clicking and it will cycle through >all available versions. Note that the definition of "available" is mode >sensitive - if you're in "install from internet" or "download from internet" >mode it'll show you any available versions on the mirror you're using, but if >you're using "install from local directory" mode it'll only show you any >versions that you've already downloaded, which might be why you didn't already >notice this mechanism while you were uninstalling. > > However it seems the only versions left on the mirrors are 20080624 and >20080523, the 2006 versions have long since gone. If you really need the old >versions, you can get them from the "Cygwin time-machine": > > http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwintimemachine > > But probably the best solution would be to download a recent snapshot >tarball of binutils and build and install it yourself, since it's had a >boatload of fixes put in earlier this year. Binutils is fortunately always >really simple to build, it's one of the packages where you really can just >"./configure ; make ; make install" and it will reliably "just work".
Either that or move to Cygwin 1.7 which has a fairly recent version of binutils. cgf -- 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
