From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8397 invoked by alias); 8 Jul 2008 17:39:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 8388 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jul 2008 17:39:40 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.prospeed.net (HELO mail.prospeed.net) (64.25.80.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:39:17 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.50] (lhall.prospeed.net [64.25.83.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.prospeed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F4B28017512 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:39:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4873A644.1090001@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:39:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Connect cygwin with old version of gcc References: <468385.58757.qm@web55304.mail.re4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <468385.58757.qm@web55304.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00129.txt.bz2 yu xuesheng wrote: > Thank you Larry! > You said > "You could then point 'setup.exe' at that local directory and > install from it. " > > I already downloaded gcc-core-3.3.3-3-src.tar.bz2, how can I make > setup.exe do the installation from this file? If you believe that this package is the sum total of what you need to do what you want, then you want to: >> ...download >> all the needed packages at that via 'wget' or something similar to your >> local disk with the same directory structure as your usual download >> directory. When I say your "usual download directory", I mean your local Cygwin download directory. That's the directory you tell 'setup.exe' to use for the packages it downloads. You may be able to get away with putting the package in a directory by itself and pointing 'setup.exe' at that (i.e. specifying this as the local download directory and telling 'setup.exe' to install from the local directory). I've never tried this but I believe that such functionality was at least once supported in 'setup.exe'. If that doesn't work, then: >> ...you may find it simpler >> to install the packages manually (tar + running postinstall scripts). I'll take this opportunity to repeat myself a little more: >> But that's advanced stuff too and should only be done "if you know what >> you're doing"(tm). If not or if you're not willing or able to solve any >> problems that might arise from taking these approaches, you shouldn't >> bother. All of this puts you into the realm of things not supported by >> this list. So if you complain to this list later about problems you see >> in the process or with the result, it may very well fall on deaf ears. But you sound like the adventurous type so go ahead and have fun! ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/