Portable Cygwin 1.5 compiled using XP fails to run on W7 64

[Morgan Gangwere]

on Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:22:52 -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
<0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20946F38C01@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> attacked their
terminal with
+Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, September 07, 2010 2:57 PM
+>On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:30:44PM +0100, Fergus wrote:
+>>>Could a portable version of Cygwin 1.5 mounted on a USB stick
+>>reasonably be expected to run on W7 64?
+>
+>No, it is not expected to run.
+>
+>cgf
+
+Who are you and what have you done to cgf?!?
+
+You answered a question about 1.5 without a complaint that 1.5 is
+no longer supported by this list.  That is not the MO of the cgf
+that inspired "WJM".

He was off his meds, wasn't it obvious?


-- 
Morgan Gangwere
Key ID A8B6F243, available from MIT.
BOFH excuse #442:

Trojan horse ran out of hay
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