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Re: HEADSUP: 64 bit Cygwin is coming soon
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:45:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: HEADSUP: 64 bit Cygwin is coming soon
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On Mar 21 13:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 21 13:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 21 10:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Mar 20 18:04, Bob Heckel wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > [old stuff]
> > > What's also missing so far is coreutils and mintty. Both packages are
> > > still in 64bit/install. I'm planning to create a new coreutils package
> > > for the 64bit/release area today, though.
> > >
> > > Here's how you can install 64 bit cygwin from 32 bit cygwin without the
> > > base-cygwin-toolchain package for now:
> > >
> > > - Download the release area. It's not that big yet, and it allows
> > > you to install all packages locally:
> > >
> > > mkdir /tmp/64bit-release
> > > cd /tmp/64bit-release
> > > rsync -av rsync://cygwin.com/ftp/cygwin/64bit/release/ .
> > > [...wait...]
> > >
> > > Additionally fetch coreutils and mintty:
> > >
> > > wget ftp://cygwin.com/cygwin/64bit/install/coreutils-8.15-1.x86_64.tar.xz
> >
> > I just uploaded a coreutils package to the release area. It's based
> > on the latest coreutils-6.22. I did not apply Eric's patches from the
> > 32 bit 6.15 release, because they didn't apply cleanly, and some of
> > them seem to be not necessary anymore. If you encounter problems
> > with this package, it's probably due to either case insensitivity
> > issues, or the fact that "/" and "//" are different on Cygwin.
> >
> > Eric, any chance to grab my coreutils-6.22-1-src.tar.bz2 package and
> > see how your patches still are required?
>
> Hang on. What have I done? 6.22?!? I grabed a stone age old version
> accidentally! Sorry about that. I'll try to come up with a 8.21
> version later today...
Boy, I don't even get the numbers right. It was 6.12, not 6.22.
Anyway, it's old.
Greetings from the valley of the ultimately confused,
Corinna
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