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Re: yikes, what are these?


--- cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 09:53:01AM +0400, Vadim Egorov wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Yes, I had to build one of the recent egcs snapshots from sources but it
> >was quite painless. I used Jan 15 cygwin snapshot -- it might have made 
> >the trick -- and Mumit Khan's egcs-1.1.2 on the top of WinNT 4.0 sp5.  
> >
> >To have the same directory structure as clean B20.1 installation I run
> >configure scripts using i586-cygwin32 as host parameter.
> 
> I thought I should point out something, since I have seen an apparent
> misconception here a few times.
> 
> If you don't like the default structure that our cygwin releases impose on
> you, there is no reason to use it.  Personally, I move everything around
> to a more "UNIX-like" structure.  So, I have a /bin, /usr/bin,
> /usr/local/bin,
> /usr/local/lib, etc.
> 
> What I'm trying to say, is that, with the possible exception of bison
> (which will be fixed in the next release) nothing should be relying
> on builtin path names using the funky H-*/i-* subdirectory structure.
> Feel free to move things into more UNIX-friendly locations.
> 
> In fact, that's what we'll be doing in the next release.

Ok, I'll be the boob to ask the question, although I'll ask it a little
differently. Instead of asking "When's the next release scheduled?" (which is,
of course, what I *really* want to know ;-), let me ask what's left to do
before the next release is made?

Rick
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rick_rankin@yahoo.com

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