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Re: Upgrading from b20.1 to 1.1.x - now my static linking fails !



> On a fresh machine w/no previous Cygwin install,
> Here's what I've done:
> 
> 1. Installed the v1.0 CD to default location.

Why?  1.1 isn't an upgrade.  You shouldn't install the CD first if you
intend to install the net release.

> 2. On the evening of 7/28, used the web site setup utility
>    (works real nice BTW) to download the latest to a
>    local directory & then did my updating from there.

Why not just "install from internet"?

> Also, I see that in the b20.1 archive there is no extra character,
> ie. unix endings while in the 1.1.x archive we have DOS endings even
> tho it looks like the default mounting mode has switched to binary !
> Its text!=binary for my b20.1 setup ...

You could have chosen "dos text" when you did the install.  Setup
asks you about that.

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