New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Wed Aug 20 15:28:00 GMT 2008


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I thought the whole point was to install cygwin first.  How can you run base
> packages first in a new install when there is no cygwin1.dll?

The ordering only has meaning in the context of running postinstall
scripts, as the postinstall phase doesn't start until after all files
from all packages have been unpacked.

Brian



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