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Re: ANN: Cygwin Install/Upgrade Tips (was: RE: Cygwin upgrade hassles)
- To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <tiberius at braemarinc dot com>
- Subject: Re: ANN: Cygwin Install/Upgrade Tips (was: RE: Cygwin upgrade hassles)
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:20:26 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, pmbailey at senet dot com dot au
- References: <000001bf48d3$e4c10ea0$3501a8c0@braemarinc.com>
"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote:
>
> Hi Paul (and others seeking step-by-step Cygwin Install/Upgrade
> instructions),
>
> I just put up a site that walks you through the Cygwin b20.1 base install
> and/or update procedures step-by-step. Take a look at it here:
>
> http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/cygwin.htm
>
> These instructions will get you Cygwin b20.1 with the latest pre-pthreads
> "Snapshot" (pthreads snapshot coming soon), a decent terminal (rxvt) if
> you're on Windows 95/98, the latest gcc and binutils, and the latest make,
> with the latest bash coming soon.
I've found it necessary to include also the following files in /bin
because certain config & makefiles seem to assume their presence without
checking, and fail when they are not present:
awk
bash
sh (== bash)
cat
cmp
echo
find
pr
pwd
sed
tr
--Chuck
(p.s. also check out my usr-local tarball for cygwin snapshots at
http://cygutils.netpedia.net/)
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