Re: your mail

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

In this case, just download the cygwin-2000xxxx.dll.gz, uncompress it
with gzip -d and copy it over your current DLL.

If none of this makes sense, then you should probably just wait for the
next release.

cgf

On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 07:30:01AM -0700, Mindy Beseler wrote:
>How do the snapshots work?  Can I just download winsup-src-20000430.tar.gz
>or do I need to download all the snapshots to get cygwin to build?  This is
>my first experience with cygwin so maybe this is a stupid question.  But I
>thought the cygwin stuff was just for the purpose of getting the gnu stuff
>to build on a windows system?
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>Thanks,
>Mindy
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>On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:24:52AM -0700, Mindy Beseler wrote:
>>I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.  I have tried this at
>>least a 10 times and get the same results each time!!
>
>Unfortunately, what you're doing wrong is building on Windows 98.
>
>The latest cygwin snapshot may work better but there are never any
>guarantees with Windows 9x.
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