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Re: setup: built-in tar
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: setup: built-in tar
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:22:37 -0400
- References: <200005231735.NAA21701@delorie.com> <200005231808.OAA23591@envy.delorie.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:08:28PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> If I remember my GPL correctly all you have to do is make the sources
>> available. Posting them on the same server in a reasonably conspicuous
>> location meets this requirement.
>
>Until either tar or gzip is updated, then the version in setup no
>longer matches the sources. Or if someone wants to put setup on a
>CD-ROM that doesn't happen to include tar or gzip. Or if the person
>building setup.exe (me) has a different version of tar or gzip
>installed on their system than the one on sourceware.
Just a minor point: the tar and gzip that are installed are built from
the sourceware distribution. They don't come from your installation
they actually exist as tar.exe.gz and gzip.exe.gz files in
~winsup/cinstall.
cgf