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Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?


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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