Which snapshot file should I use?

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes sthoenna@efn.org
Thu Aug 25 19:00:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:43:27PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> >cygwin-inst-*.tar.bz2       directory from "make install" (dll, exes,
> >libs, headers, etc)
> 
> 
> Use this if you plan to build stuff against the new DLL (but not the DLL itself.)  Used in conjunction with cygwin1-*.dll.bz2.

No, as it says, it includes the dll.  In addition to building stuff, use it
if there's a change to one of the exes that you want to try (i.e. cygserver,
cygpath).

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