Amanda-Users

Re: Amanda with cygwin on windows...

2006-05-24 12:52:50
Subject: Re: Amanda with cygwin on windows...
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:45:40 -0400
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:03:12PM +0100, John Clement wrote:
> Thanks for that... Which category is m4 in?
> 
>  - john 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> > [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of rom
> > Sent: 24 May 2006 14:20
> > To: John Clement; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> > Subject: Re: Amanda with cygwin on windows...
> > 
> > John Clement wrote:
> > > I've just started following the isntructions on the site to 
> > get this 
> > > working, but it suggests I should be installing ALL of the stuff in 
> > > devel.  This seems rather a lot, is this really the case or just 
> > > slightly old documentation and there is now a shorter list 
> > of stuff I 
> > > need to install?
> > 
> > For cygwin 1.5.19-4 the following list was sufficient:
> >     cygwin defaults
> >     gcc
> >     inetutils
> >     m4
> >     make
> >     more (if you want to use amrecover)
> >     readline with source

The cygwin website has a "find the package a file is in" page.

"ROM", when you say "cygwin defaults", is that a set of packages,
or do you mean just the cygwin dll itself?  If packages, I
presume the defaults include the tar package :)

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