Re: Obtaining a pervious version

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

Max Bowsher wrote:
> John Williams wrote:
>
> > Max Bowsher wrote:
> >
> > > OK, *now* its pretty obvious what the problem is. Cygwin 1.3.20 is
> > > backward compatible with Cygwin 1.3.13, but Cygwin is not and never
> > > will be sideways compatible with other slightly modified versions of
> > > Cygwin.
> > >
> > > Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin.
> > So it seems.  I've got to exhaust all other options before I commit to
> > that effort.
>
> OK, so it's not going to be really easy, but it probably isn't going to be
> nightmarishly hard either.
Somewhere between heaven and hell!   I gather actually that this Xygwin 
environment doesn't do much more than fiddle with some of the path 
mapping stuff.  Certainly no rocket science going on in there - I think 
the tool providor's desire was to spare their customers from a full 
cygwin install, and to lock in a "stable" distro to minimise support 
calls arising from factors outside their control.  This is all just my 
conjecture.

Regards,

John



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