Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?

2009-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 15:01, Warren Young wrote: I got a new machine at work a few weeks ago, and decided to install Cygwin 1.7 on it, and not even mess with 1.5. Can't test what you don't use, right? For reasons that aren't important here, today I decided I needed a copy of 1.5 as well. This means

Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?

2009-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 22 12:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 21 15:01, Warren Young wrote: The installation of 1.5 failed in several ways. The way it failed makes me wonder if some part of the setup process was erroneously referring to stuff in c:\cygwin instead of c:\cygwin-1.5. Yes, the reason

Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?

2009-01-22 Thread Warren Young
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, the reason is that setup looks into c:\cygwin by default and if it finds setup files there, it will use them Thought so. A wishlist item, then: add something to 1.5's setup.exe to detect that c:\cygwin is from a later version, and refuse to use information found

Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?

2009-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 22 09:48, Warren Young wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, the reason is that setup looks into c:\cygwin by default and if it finds setup files there, it will use them Thought so. A wishlist item, then: add something to 1.5's setup.exe to detect that c:\cygwin is from a later

1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?

2009-01-21 Thread Warren Young
I got a new machine at work a few weeks ago, and decided to install Cygwin 1.7 on it, and not even mess with 1.5. Can't test what you don't use, right? For reasons that aren't important here, today I decided I needed a copy of 1.5 as well. This means I have the reverse of the recommended