On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at 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 at texoma.net ---for brevity, just enough to show that Stephen knows of which he speaks :) vaden at turtlehill:~/which$ bzcat which-2.20-2.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - usr/ usr/bin/ usr/bin/which.exe