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 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email > > to [email protected]. For more options, visit this > > group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
