[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 27 March 2008 19:31: > Troy Bull wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > > Troy Bull wrote: > > > > Greetings > > > > > > > > Over the last few days I have ran into the error where a filename > > > is > too long for cygwin. I know this has been discussed does > > > anyone have > a timeline for when this might get changed? > > > > > > It will be changed for the 1.7.x series. You can experiment with the > > > snapshots <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/> if you like. There are no > > > firm timeline for the release yet. > > > > > > > this looks interesting and I am glad to give it a try. That being > > said, how do i use it, just replace my current cygwin1.dll with the > > one I download from this snapshot page? > > Yes, if you just want to use it. If you want to build things against > this, then you need the larger set of files. Make sure you've stopped > all Cygwin apps (including services) before doing the replace.
IIRC there's a FAQ entry on this. Hang on, I'll look it up. Ah, here we are: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/
