On 08/17/2010 04:54 PM, Ross Smith wrote: > I've installed the experimental gcc 4.5 packages (because that's the > version I'm using in all my other development environments, and it's > nice not to have to target multiple compiler versions any more), but now > that cygwin dll 1.7.6 is out, I can't seem to find a way to upgrade > cygwin without also downgrading gcc. In the installer, if I select > Current I get the new cygwin but the old gcc, while if I select > Experimental, it keeps the new gcc but doesn't offer me the new cygwin. > > At the moment I'm sticking with the old cygwin, because the gcc upgrade > is more important to me than the cygwin upgrade. Is there some way I'm > missing to select both, or do I just have to accept that I can't upgrade > anything else until the official gcc 4.5 is ready?
Stay on the 'Curr' (not 'Exp'), click 'View' until you are on the Pending page, then cycle on the string next to each gcc package until it says Keep instead of the downgraded version number. Yes, it's a known pain that setup.exe tries too hard to downgrade experimental packages. I still remember the pain of the couple of years during cygwin 1.5 days where the only working emacs was marked experimental, and I had to go through this exercise of manually requesting that it not be downgraded every time I ran setup.exe for anything else. Patches welcome. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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