Re: SETUP WIZARD FOR CYGWIN?XFREE86

[egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>]

Hi!

Tuesday, 24 July, 2001 Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu wrote:

CW> Port rpm to win32.  Not cygwin.

i can't see why "not cygwin". bootstrapping *is* a problem, but
honestly, it seems easier to me than mingw port of rpm.

cygwin1.dll is reasonably self-sufficient nowadays. i'm using
"minimalistic ssh client" which consists of 3 files: cygwin1.dll,
ssh.exe (from openssh) and small bat file which sets %HOME% before
staring ssh. everything's working perfectly either on wnt or w9x.
sure, rpm is more "system-dependent" than ssh, but anyway, i don't see
a big problem to create mounts (the only (?) cygwinism rpm really
needs) on the early stages of bootstrap.

if you're concerned about different versions of cygwin1.dll, take a
look at cygwin testsuite. there're no problems with testing new build of
cygwin1.dll while several programs based on the old one are running
in the same time on the same machine.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/