John Williams wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote: >> >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be >>> down. Hope it's nothing too serious. >>> >>> Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup >>> installer, a prior version of the Cygwin base installation? I'm >>> using some 3rd party software tools that were built upon Cygwin >>> 1.3.13, and am having versioning issues when trying to run them >>> under 1.3.20. >> >> >> Um. "3rd party software tools"? If you are using software >> distributed by someone else then *they* should be providing you with >> both the binary and sources that the software needs. > > They have a cross compiler that uses the cygwin compatability layer. > They have modified and distribute a version of this layer, which is > built upon cygwin1.dll version 1.3.13. However, they distribute with > their tools only a minimal subset of cygwin necessary for their tools > to run. However, in the project I am doing I need not only the 3rd > party cross compiler, but also native gcc and binutils etc. > > However, simply running the 3rd party tools under the current cygwin > release does not work (versioning errors),
Details? > and similarly trying to run > cygwin binutils under this 3rd party "cut down" cygwin doesn't work > either (same problem). > >> >> In any event, 1.3.20 is compatible with 1.3.13 so, you should be all >> set. > > Yeah that's what I would have thought, but it doesn't work. I've > tried just about every combination I can think of, and it all falls > in a heap. DETAILS!!!! 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/
