Can someone help this person out? I was under the impression that some (all?) of these packages were related to X. Is that true? If so, we currently don't have a method available for downloading X apps and I don't think it makes sense to make X part of the default installation. cgf ----- Forwarded message from Vincent Labella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: "Vincent Labella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: adding optional packages Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:58:04 -0600 (CST) Hello, Besides the fact that Cygwin is freely availible, regularily updated and easy to install. The thing I like most is that it comes with so many optional packages: libtiff, zlib, jpeg, ssh etc.. precompiled and installed! Getting even a comercial compiler installed with all these optional packages would take a modest amount of effort. So my question is: What does it take to add an optional package to cygwin? Is this up to an individual or is there a set of instructions one can follow? The reason is that I would like to add the following packages that compile OOTB: -fftw -wxwindows -gsl I would be happy to do the work if instructed. Vince += Vincent P. LaBella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Arkansas =+ | Dept. of Physics Fayetteville, AR 72701 501-575-4313 FAX:4781| +==================>www.uark.edu/misc/vlabella<==================+ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. http://sources.redhat.com/ http://www.redhat.com/