Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Dec 6 19:18:00 GMT 2013


On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 07:56:16PM +0100, Javier Murillo M?rquez wrote:
>Hello
>
>Then, is not possible install bash 4.2 on CygWin?. I can not
>understand if there is some way for it.

We have a program called setup-*.exe which installs programs.  If you
don't see bash 4.2 there then it is not available for installation.
There isn't any secret way to get other versions of programs than what
is available via setup.

You could presumably build bash 4.2 yourself, however.

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