Re: [CentOS-devel] Ja oder nein: is cygwin-setup process a viable alternative to present day builds?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:

3. As far as I know Cygwin doesn't build locally. Stuff is built

'somewhere else' and then cygwin-setup downloads the archives, unpacks them, and installs it into \cygwin.

You are correct about that, something I just learned. See below the sig.

That leaves Gentoo's process as the only other one with which I am familiar as a _potential_ candidate for a compatible release in a greatly reduced amount of time.

thanks/ldv/vaden@texoma.net

---for brevity, just enough to show that Stephen knows of which he speaks :)

vaden@turtlehill:~/which$ bzcat which-2.20-2.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - usr/ usr/bin/ usr/bin/which.exe