[GRASS5] Re: Cygwin B20?

[John Huddleston]

Forgive my late reply, I have been on vacation and just
returned.  Old is not bad.   New is not necessarily good.

The B20.1 version first released in November 1998 is
a very stable port of Cygwin for windows.  This includes
the X11 libraries (which I use on two other projects)
Most Unix applications will compile OOTB with this
system.   The first two Grass5 builds were compiled with
B20.1.  The last three were compiled with Cygwin 1.1.1
The documentation is out of date ( sorry Markus! )

I have discovered that when combining Fortran, C, and
C++ together, that B20.1 works well with Windows 98
however; you must upgrade to Cygwin 1.x if using
Windows NT or 2000.   That is a must.

The cygwin 1.1.1 is bleeding edge software and
frequent upgrades are required.  I keep on top of
this as time permits.   The xfree software purportedly
works but I have not been able to accomplish it.
The B20.1 X11 software will not work with the
Cygwin 1.x system.   The XGrass was removed from
Grass5 so this requirement is not necessary; thus the
reason I moved to cygwin 1.1.1.

John Huddleston, P.E.
USDA Computer Engineer

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea Aime
<IMCEAWT-aaime+40comune+2Emodena+2Eit+40inter2 at rocky.itc.nrcs.USDA.gov>
To: Huddleston, John <jhuddleston at itc.nrcs.usda.gov>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 3:58 AM
Subject: Cygwin B20?


> I see that you are using Cygwin B20 to port
> GRASS to NT. Well, since there is Cygwin 1.1
> which is no more in beta stange, why are you
> using that old one? Moreover, Cygwin 1.1 has
> a clean directory tree, not the nightmare
> proposed by B20. Is is a problem with the
> new setup style?
> Andrea


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