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RE: broken link
- To: <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: broken link
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:25:19 -0400
Please check with http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin on how to install
Cygwin 1.1.2. and askt at cygwin@sources.redhat.com mailing list if you
problems with Cygwin installation.
Also please post your messages to cygwin-xfree mailing list. Please
not direct mail. Mailing lists are there for some reasons.
After you have installed Cygwin 1.11.2 properly, ask cygwin-xfree mailing
list and we will help you with Xfree, if you would have any questions.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Issac Trotts [mailto:trotts@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 7:03 PM
> To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi
> Subject: RE: broken link
>
>
> Suhaib,
>
> I didn't see a setup.exe for cygwin 1.1.2 so I downloaded
> cygwin-1.1.2.tar.gz and incanted
>
> gunzip -c cygwin-1.1.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
>
> in the / directory (from a Windows prompt, after closing all the Cygwin
> bash shells).
> tar complained:
>
> usr/lib/libc.a: Could not link to `libcygwin.a': no such file or
> directory.
>
> and said the same thing for libm.a. Should I do anything about this?
>
> Issac
>
>
> At 06:29 PM 7/23/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >It is gone for good. Use cygwin-xfree.
> >We do not support B20.1 anymore. You need Cygwin 1.1.2 or later
> >and xfree 4.0.1
> >
> >Suhaib
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Issac Trotts [mailto:trotts@MIT.EDU]
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:13 PM
> >> To: ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
> >> Subject: broken link
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> The link to
> >>
> >> cygwin-xfree-x11r6.4-cygwin-B20.1.tar.bz2
> >>
> >> on
> >>
> >> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/
> >>
> >> appears to be broken. I tried to find it in
> >>
> >> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries/
> >>
> >> but it wasn't there either.
> >>
> >> -Issac
> >>
> >>
> >
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Issac Trotts [mailto:trotts@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 7:03 PM
> To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi
> Subject: RE: broken link
>
>
> Suhaib,
>
> I didn't see a setup.exe for cygwin 1.1.2 so I downloaded
> cygwin-1.1.2.tar.gz and incanted
>
> gunzip -c cygwin-1.1.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
>
> in the / directory (from a Windows prompt, after closing all the Cygwin
> bash shells).
> tar complained:
>
> usr/lib/libc.a: Could not link to `libcygwin.a': no such file or
> directory.
>
> and said the same thing for libm.a. Should I do anything about this?
>
> Issac
>
>
> At 06:29 PM 7/23/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >It is gone for good. Use cygwin-xfree.
> >We do not support B20.1 anymore. You need Cygwin 1.1.2 or later
> >and xfree 4.0.1
> >
> >Suhaib
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Issac Trotts [mailto:trotts@MIT.EDU]
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:13 PM
> >> To: ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
> >> Subject: broken link
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> The link to
> >>
> >> cygwin-xfree-x11r6.4-cygwin-B20.1.tar.bz2
> >>
> >> on
> >>
> >> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/
> >>
> >> appears to be broken. I tried to find it in
> >>
> >> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries/
> >>
> >> but it wasn't there either.
> >>
> >> -Issac
> >>
> >>
> >