On 18 August 2010 06:25, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 18 August 2010 00:09, Eric Blake wrote: >> 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. > > I'd recommend selecting the 'Exp' button actually. That ensures that > all dependencies of gcc, e.g. libgcc and libffi, are upgraded to 4.5 > too. (It's yet another flaw of setup.exe that it doesn't automatically > upgrade dependencies of experimental versions accordingly.)
Scratch that. I hadn't realised that if you select 'Exp', non-experimental packages no longer get updated, which of course is exactly what the OP was saying. This is awful. Andy -- 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
