Rebuilding Cygwin From Sources

2006-07-24 Thread CARTER Alan
Hi, Perhaps someone who knows can confirm that I've got this right: The executables in a Cygwin download can be much older than the download date, where much 3 years. This suggests that executables are only rebuilt when their own sources change. Previously built executables can continue to be

Re: Rebuilding Cygwin From Sources

2006-07-24 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, CARTER Alan wrote: Hi, Perhaps someone who knows can confirm that I've got this right: The executables in a Cygwin download can be much older than the download date, where much 3 years. This suggests that executables are only rebuilt when their own sources change.

RE: Rebuilding Cygwin From Sources

2006-07-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 July 2006 18:43, CARTER Alan wrote: Hi, Perhaps someone who knows can confirm that I've got this right: The executables in a Cygwin download can be much older than the download date, where much 3 years. Yep. Unless something goes wrong with the efforts to maintain