On Mar 4 05:03, Rafael Kitover wrote: > On 3/4/2011 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 4 05:09, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> On 2 March 2011 13:08, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: > >>> P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is > >>> easy to replace cygwin1.dll (keeping around the working one), but in order > >>> to test the cygwin1 package in full (eg to check within stdio.h whether > >>> vsnprintf is included under __STRICT_ANSI__ or not)? > >> > >> You should usually install the cygwin-inst-*.tar.bz2 tarball > >> containing all the relevant headers and tools along with the DLL. > >> > >> There's a FAQ entry describing how to install it at > >> http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots. > ... > > I was just shutting everything down, going to c:\cygwin and untarring > from msysGit. > > But apparently that's not correct because now I have stuff in > C:\cygwin\usr\bin . > > Feature request: would it be possible to make the -inst snapshots not > depend on the mounts so you could just untar them from cmd/winrar/7zip/msys?
You could also just create two junction points C:/cygwin/usr/bin -> C:/cygwin/bin C:/cygwin/usr/lib -> C:/cygwin/lib Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
