On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:03:53AM -0500, 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 .
I don't understand why that would be if you're using a version of Cygwin's tar. However, regardless, if you are not building programs which rely on a new api exposed in a snapshot, you shouldn't need to install the full cygwin-inst*.tar.bz2. 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
