From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6626 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2016 18:24:00 -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 6611 invoked by uid 89); 7 Nov 2016 18:23:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=erik, Erik, rus, Rus X-HELO: mail-lf0-f46.google.com Received: from mail-lf0-f46.google.com (HELO mail-lf0-f46.google.com) (209.85.215.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:23:58 +0000 Received: by mail-lf0-f46.google.com with SMTP id t196so121172464lff.3 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:23:58 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=4PDPjL0Xfo5Q7um9fIQGEv/JrxY/XB9A4nCkJJnOvhI=; b=G4aAv9jozGIIZHfLm9fafFIhMpqvNrQaDDYjjwUxXpj6Lf2azKFx1vN72yMwMH5Cvz laODTDg3bYu14L/PKGLGt3cobz0mtNOB/QegQvbJJ6O200kDJgU+3hr0HUcO35/LDaH0 cm4gC2mvNZ9U8urVr5KoP94zNTfbHLTCzwOlQYswwp1LhBgxw5ni3oZFdAroaSTBJ5qK pbspwHySJQY7KzRIDj1Ies2xSXqyOAWrmW2mJWbF0YeFmk9pCvcL363SxloD/JoYIpjZ WOS5LiB8VI6o96Gy5vej7Qw4q0WMmdUs+bh/lcZwfbKE+ySzAQD+xeYlJA8s8GJsHkPj Om1Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvf8rx67+8YqHozTK1NhpXQOeD2LFrFFgyyxreU+i0HjpGcJh2K7RJN2V1NXkBV4YKU37vg7S3v4wJX2Jg== X-Received: by 10.25.221.8 with SMTP id u8mr3782348lfg.40.1478543035698; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:23:55 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.80.170 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:23:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5820C561.1040209@idirect.com> References: <5820C561.1040209@idirect.com> From: Erik Soderquist Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all. To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00059.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Rus wrote: > I understand that Cygwin 2.5.2 was the last version that actually worked > with Windows-XP. > I tried to run the setup-x86.exe program, and it just fails. Quite > unfortunate, as this > will simply force me to abandon further usage of Cygwin. > Short of messing around with the "Cygwin Time Machine", is there a simple > way to just > download some of the 2.5.2 source and/or the executables? (I need bzip2.exe, > for example, > and I find I only had gzip.exe installed. Arrrrgh.). What "messing around" is there? I downloaded the setup.exe provided from the time machine and installed cygwin on a freshly loaded XP-SP3 host without issue... -- Erik -- 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