On 3/1/2011 8:20 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
To be fair, setup.exe ought to be able to resolve or warn about such version dependencies.
That's what I was tempted to say. For the record this is what I did: 1) select Keep 2) manually pick unison 3) accept the dialog about dependencies Yet AFAICT only Unison was installed. This is complicated by the fact that I did not directly install but did a first download-without-installation and then installed from local bundles. The above is what happened at download time; I am no longer sure what I did at installation time but most likely the same. In a slightly different line of thought, isn't it rather brittle of Cygwin that a minor upgrade (I was already at some 1.7 version) breaks applications? Think, a contrario, of how you can still run ancient Windows apps on XP. Anyway I upgraded everything and now I am fine. I was badly burned by a backward incompatibility a while back (1.5 -> 1.6?) and became upgrade-shy. Maybe I will resume upgrading more frequently and consistently. Thanks for the help. -- O.L. PS: In a related vein, OpenSSH did not install its libraries, although I re-re-re-installed it, causing exim, svn etc to fail. I had to unpack the library tar ball manually. -- 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
