Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, root wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've removed cygwin from my system. >> Still get the same problem with setup.exe. >> >> Have you a debug version of the installer? > > Try downloading the source for setup and building it from that. > Since you > can't see the packages for some reason, a direct link to the source > tarball is > <ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/release/setup/setup-2.249.2.5-1-src.tar.bz 2>. > Instructions for compiling are at > <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html>. Enjoy.
That won't work, I'm afraid. The current instructions on that webpage are for building with gcc 3. But setup didn't support building with gcc 3 until recently. You could try the setup-2.303 source from the snapshots area. But you cannot easily (at all?) build setup without Cygwin installed. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
