Obtaining a pervious version

[John Williams]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> John Williams wrote:
> 
>>Max Bowsher wrote:
>>
>>>OK, *now* its pretty obvious what the problem is. Cygwin 1.3.20 is
>>>backward compatible with Cygwin 1.3.13, but Cygwin is not and never
>>>will be sideways compatible with other slightly modified versions of
>>>Cygwin.
>>>
>>>Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin.
>>
>>So it seems.  I've got to exhaust all other options before I commit to
>>that effort.
> 
> 
> OK, so it's not going to be really easy, but it probably isn't going to be
> nightmarishly hard either.

Somewhere between heaven and hell!   I gather actually that this Xygwin 
environment doesn't do much more than fiddle with some of the path 
mapping stuff.  Certainly no rocket science going on in there - I think 
the tool providor's desire was to spare their customers from a full 
cygwin install, and to lock in a "stable" distro to minimise support 
calls arising from factors outside their control.  This is all just my 
conjecture.

Regards,

John



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