On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:42:33 +0100, "Vincent R." <foru...@smartmobili.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently bought a new laptop and of course it was loaded with Windows > Vista(Ultimate). > So as usual I tried to install cygwin on it, I run the setup.exe, I let the > default install folder > and then I need to choose packages. > First I was surprised because I couldn't find subversion, so I quit setup > and restart it but this time > with another mirror and then I was able to find subversion but when I try > to install it, setup crash. > So since I was motivated I try it again but this time, withe the first > mirror and this time subversion > was available!!! Anyway I told me it might be some network issues so I keep > on installing. > > After a few minutes I realized I forget to install emacs, so I run setup, > install it with mintty as well > and then I enter emacs on prompt. this time emacs.exe crash and I am > proposed to debug it. > > So my question is : does cygwin have some known issues with Vista ? > Of course I can use vim for instance but I find it annoying... > >
Ok finally I got my answers, I am cross-compiling and everything is so SLOWWWWWWWW that I will have to install Windows XP ... Is it because of the couple laptop(Dell XPS M1530)/Vista or does it come from Vista itself ? -- 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/
