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Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?
- From: "Dave Korn" <davek_throwaway at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:46:03 +0000
- Subject: Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?
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From: Rolf Hemmerling
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 05:26:59 +0100
The "only" useful update technology for me as Windows users, is to use
WS_FTP by doing a recursive directory download, so that just "new" files (
not yet existing on my local computer) were downloaded, PLUS setup.bz2.
NO!
The *ONLY* useful update technology for a Windows user is to use the
setup.exe program. It's the only thing that guarantees that you'll download
a consistent and fully working cygwin setup. By the way, are you under the
impression that there are many non-Windows users of cygwin?
Due to this process, I realize:
gcc/gccg++/
does not contain updated files since 2003-10.
So the "critical" "bad" component is probably
cygwin/cygwin-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2
!!!!!
If I am right,
Stop right there. You aren't right. You're very very wrong. You
downloaded a mismatched set of files because you used the wrong,
unsupported, and very very difficult to get right method of doing it
manually, when you should have been using the very very simple and
guaranteed correct method of using setup.exe
so that my posting is just "superfluous" since a few days.
Nope, your posting was superfluous from the word go.
****** I just would like to advice other newbies and experts, IF they run
into such problems, to post it here in the list !
But at least take people's word for it when they give you the answer to
your problem!
**** Thanks to "Homar Simpson" for support and agreeing to my message in
this mailing list.
But I can´t agree with his conclusion
Wow! "Homer Simpson supports me, but he's wrong." D'oh!
DaveK
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