Fw: help win winxp install

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

You too.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>.  Reformatted.

Morgan Gangwere wrote:
> On 1/8/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh <AT> cygwin <DOT> com> wrote:
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And here too - <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>

>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> - reformatted.
>>
>> Sam The Cat wrote:
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)"
>> > <reply-to-list-only-lh <AT> cygwin <DOT> com>
>> > To: <cygwin <AT> cygwin <DOT> com>
>>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  No need to feed the 
>> spammers.
>>
>> > Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:37 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Fw: help win winxp install
>> >
>> >
>> >> Sam The Cat wrote:
>> >>> figure this one out  (I think)
>> >>>
>> >>> the first pass of the gcc (cc1) was looking for a dll "cygintl-3.dll"
>> >>> this could not be found.  I did find "cygintl-8.dll" which shows
>> >>> modification as of 10/22/2006.  Not sure if it is a complete fix but
>> >>> I copied the "cygintl-8.dll" file and renamed it "cygintl-3.dll" and
>> >>> the gcc now passes a rudementaly hello.c complile.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> That's a truly terrible way to solve your problem.  A better way would
>> >> have
>> >> been to consult <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to find the package you
>> >> were
>> >> missing (libintl3) and install it.  I recommend you do that
>> >> immediately if
>> >> you don't want to suffer from more problems as a result of your 
>> attempt
>> >> above.
>> >>
>>  > ok -- I accept that my sol'n was not optimal but how do I 
>> accomplish what
>>  > you suggesting ?  On the web site I see there 5 versions of the
>>  > interntionalization library but on the setup tool where I specify what
>>  > package to isntall I am only given the option for the latest.  How 
>> do I
>>  > install a package that I need that setup does not offer me ?
>>  >
>>
>>
>> Try another mirror.  <ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org> showed me the libintl,
>> linintl1, libintl2, libintl3, and libintl8 packages.  As long as you
>> can find the package at <http://cygwin.com/packages/>, there's going to
>> be at least one mirror out there with the package in question.
>>
> well, there is a fundamental flaw here in the distribution system then.
> i have looked at the versions from (agast!) three different mirrors
> and they have so far been completely different. i have found (long
> ago, dont know if this was fixed) a version 0.3.4 of bash _on_ that
> mirrors package list. o think what we need to do in _this_ case is to
> *standardise* (oh my! standardization!) because if we're not careful
> we'll end up in DLL HELL.
> i propose a round-robin approach, **I am _not_ saying i will do it**
> its just a good idea.. that would make it so that if a new version of
> the package came out, the main server would have it and we would have
> to say WASFM... its too hard
> 


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