Re: Obtaining a pervious version

[John Williams <jwilliams at itee dot uq dot edu dot au>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
>
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be 
> > down.  Hope it's nothing too serious.
> >
> > Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup installer, 
> > a prior version of the Cygwin base installation?  I'm using some 3rd 
> > party software tools that were built upon Cygwin 1.3.13, and am having 
> > versioning issues when trying to run them under 1.3.20.
>
> Um.  "3rd party software tools"?  If you are using software distributed
> by someone else then *they* should be providing you with both the binary
> and sources that the software needs.
They have a cross compiler that uses the cygwin compatability layer. 
They have modified and distribute a version of this layer, which is 
built upon cygwin1.dll version 1.3.13.  However, they distribute with 
their tools only a minimal subset of cygwin necessary for their tools to 
run.  However, in the project I am doing I need not only the 3rd party 
cross compiler, but also native gcc and binutils etc.

However, simply running the 3rd party tools under the current cygwin 
release does not work (versioning errors), and similarly trying to run 
cygwin binutils under this 3rd party "cut down" cygwin doesn't work 
either (same problem).

> In any event, 1.3.20 is compatible with 1.3.13 so, you should be all
> set.  
Yeah that's what I would have thought, but it doesn't work.  I've tried 
just about every combination I can think of, and it all falls in a heap.

> We don't have older versions of the DLL available, otherwise.
> Sorry.
Bummer.



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