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Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:12:11 +0100
- Subject: Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?
- References: <49779B20.9060905@etr-usa.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jan 21 15:01, Warren Young wrote:
> I got a new machine at work a few weeks ago, and decided to install Cygwin
> 1.7 on it, and not even mess with 1.5. Can't test what you don't use,
> right?
>
> For reasons that aren't important here, today I decided I needed a copy of
> 1.5 as well. This means I have the reverse of the recommended setup, which
> is having 1.5 installed in c:\cygwin, and 1.7 elsewhere. 1.7 on my machine
> is in c:\cygwin, and 1.5 is in c:\cygwin-1.5.
>
> The installation of 1.5 failed in several ways. The way it failed makes me
> wonder if some part of the setup process was erroneously referring to stuff
> in c:\cygwin instead of c:\cygwin-1.5.
Yes, the reason is that setup looks into c:\cygwin by default and if it
finds setup files there, it will use them, even when you change the
path. That doesn't occur in the new setup-1.7.exe, but that doesn't
help with installing 1.5 after 1.7, of course.
What you should do in this case, basically:
- Stop all 1.7 processes.
- Rename C:\cygwin to C:\cygwin-foo
- Start setup for 1.5
- change the installation path to c:\cygwin-1.5
- After the installation, rename C:\cygwin-foo back to C:\cygwin
Corinna
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