HEADSUP: 64 bit Cygwin is coming soon

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 21 13:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 21 10:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 20 18:04, Bob Heckel wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > [old stuff]
> > What's also missing so far is coreutils and mintty.  Both packages are
> > still in 64bit/install.  I'm planning to create a new coreutils package
> > for the 64bit/release area today, though.
> > 
> > Here's how you can install 64 bit cygwin from 32 bit cygwin without the
> > base-cygwin-toolchain package for now:
> > 
> > - Download the release area.  It's not that big yet, and it allows
> >   you to install all packages locally:
> > 
> >   mkdir /tmp/64bit-release
> >   cd /tmp/64bit-release
> >   rsync -av rsync://cygwin.com/ftp/cygwin/64bit/release/ .
> >   [...wait...]
> > 
> >   Additionally fetch coreutils and mintty:
> > 
> >   wget ftp://cygwin.com/cygwin/64bit/install/coreutils-8.15-1.x86_64.tar.xz
> 
> I just uploaded a coreutils package to the release area.  It's based
> on the latest coreutils-6.22.  I did not apply Eric's patches from the
> 32 bit 6.15 release, because they didn't apply cleanly, and some of
> them seem to be not necessary anymore.  If you encounter problems
> with this package, it's probably due to either case insensitivity
> issues, or the fact that "/" and "//" are different on Cygwin.
> 
> Eric, any chance to grab my coreutils-6.22-1-src.tar.bz2 package and
> see how your patches still are required?

Hang on.  What have I done?  6.22?!?  I grabed a stone age old version
accidentally!  Sorry about that.  I'll try to come up with a 8.21
version later today...


Corinna

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