From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17519 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2017 18:56:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17510 invoked by uid 89); 4 Apr 2017 18:56:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=rice, Rice, H*MI:sk:8579B85, H*F:D*ab.ca X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:56:56 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([174.0.238.184]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id vTdPcsgYHsa1kvTdQc0h2f; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:56:56 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=W+NIbVek c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:117 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=NEAV23lmAAAA:8 a=L_7Jw4S2-J0ziX7h4P0A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Subject: Re: Moving forward from cygwinports References: <67f6b6d0-4d5d-2d81-4a66-cfb2d7623196@roaima.co.uk> <05817731-A39C-4240-A4BC-DD3DF27D9E1B@solidrocksystems.com> <8579B851-728D-49BB-8BA9-53D592C808E3@solidrocksystems.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <0dfde5a4-ca7f-eed5-2431-f5da3ff2643e@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:56:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8579B851-728D-49BB-8BA9-53D592C808E3@solidrocksystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfKoKbbJMY1yHqwUUvHNiySlEKgYl2jVoW3HR19k55BXZ7DWf+bql2BgSg3z/4U1hn6UqaRWHvbptfiMdijtkTAYSaDnQvmn/usD3+ux45Vo1s5gV3Adm eClsP8yyRB4aoxjx2Nxnw+cZ1HgVubU+NMkXiN7epoLaygUKmpHQAUDqF7DOBg/fkltAmFEhs73PCg== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 On 2017-04-04 12:06, Vince Rice wrote: >> On Apr 4, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Wayne Barron wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>>> On 2017-04-04 05:38, Chris Davies wrote: >>>>> As an example, my use case is Perl-DBD-Sybase from about >>>>> three weeks ago, which works beautifully but is not in the >>>>> main repository. Short of moving to a Linux-based platform >>>>> I'm now not sure how to proceed. Could someone enlighten me, >>>>> please? >>>> You could try building it yourself: >>>> https://github.com/cygwinports-extras/perl-DBD-Sybase >>>> You'll need cygport, perl, and libsybdb-devel. If it weren't for that >>>> patch, you could also just install it from cpan. >>> I know that Cygwin and Cygport are not the same. >>> I was asking if you could perhaps share information on how to >>> properly install Cygport. >>> I downloaded it from here. >>> https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport >>> In the Cygwin, it had a Windows 32 or 64-bit installer. >>> This does not come with such. > You didn't have to download it from anywhere. Cygport is a Cygwin > package, it can/should be installed from Cygwin's setup. Also calm if you want to maintain local or ports repos and install with setup. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple