When I first installed the latest 1.7 it worked fine , it's only in the last 6 
weeks or so that its gone bad

Jason

On Tuesday 09 November 2010 13:00:54 Bill Hart wrote:
> There seem to be some issues with the latest Cygwin. It's a major
> update. I've just installed it, and software which used to work on
> Cygwin no longer does.
> 
> Bill.
> 
> On 9 November 2010 11:39, Jason <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Monday 08 November 2010 19:23:38 jason wrote:
> >> Yeah , I did the same with mingw* , but that was mainly me being lazy.
> >> I'm going to change my cygwin back to the 1.5 version , version 1.7 only
> >> went mainstream this summer. I'll do a few tests , and if everything is
> >> OK , I'll release RC1
> > 
> > I cant seem to install the old cygwin 1.5 which is slightly odd , I
> > certainly used it may'ish this year , so unless I was a few months
> > behind , there appears to be a problem with my windows(32 and 64) ,
> > perhaps some windows update has killed it.
> > 
> > I never had any problems before with Cygwin ,  and mpir has always built
> > OK on it , so I am going to release an RC1 and someone else can
> > hopefully test it.
> > 
> > At some point I remember talk of cygwin on skynet or the washington
> > machines , did that ever happen?
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> >> There are a few projects I use that think they dont need to do tested
> >> releases , and they are a pain in the arse to use because it next to
> >> impossible to keep things consistent.
> >> 
> >> Jason
> >> 
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Case Vanhorsen" <[email protected]>
> >> To: <[email protected]>
> >> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 6:24 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [mpir-devel] Re: cygwin fails on mpir new and the old
> >> versions
> >> 
> >> >I have seen issues similar to this with mingw32. The solution was to
> >> >
> >> > use an old MSYS version (1.0.10 IIRC) instead of the latest
> >> > version(s). I just assumed it was a quirk in the version of MSYS I
> >> > used so I didn't persue it any further.
> >> > 
> >> > casevh
> > 
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