broken link

[Chris Faylor]

How in the world, could someone miss 'setup.exe'?  Or, the mention of
it in three or four different places on the web site???

cgf

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:25:19PM -0400, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
>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.
>
>> -----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
>> >
>> >> -----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.