On Mar 30 00:59, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Dear Phil Betts et al, > > Thank you for the humourous "soapbox" lecture. I do recognize the > sentiment and I'm all for improving the world as much as the next > guy. I do my bit volunteering for Debian. When it comes to windows, > however, I just want to get my work done. > > To answer your question, "can the Crestron-installed cygwin be > eliminated"? I don't know, but I wouldn't count on it. The > cygwin-derived cross compiler is only part of the product and it wants > to be installed in a weird place (C:\Crestron\ColdFire). I don't want > to put my cygwin there and I don't want my cygwin to be trashed when I > install a new version of the crestron tool. > > As for taking it up with the vendor, that is precisely my aim. They > are aware of the problem but suggest only a weak workaround. What I'd > like to do is point them at a document that describes how to build > cygwin that won't interfere with the default build. I'm > optimistically hoping they can build a modified cygwin for their tool > in the future.
They should not ship cygwin at all, but instead just provide the setup.exe tool to install a standard Cygwin distro from the net. Btw., do they provide the source codes for the Cygwin DLL and their tools? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
