[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime

[Charles Wilson]

Earnie Boyd wrote:

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 > I've made a new version of the mingw package available for download.
 >
 > NOTE and CAUTION:  I've renamed the package from mingw to
 > mingw-runtime in order to match it's true name.  This has
 > necessitated the need to include a null file named
 > mingw-20010917-1.tar.gz and mingw-20010917-1-src.tar.gz.  You
 > should install mingw-20010917-1.tar.gz first and then install the
 > mingw-runtime-1.1-1 package to replace it.  I copied the original
 > latest/mingw/mingw-20010424-1 files to 
latest/mingw-runtime/mingw-runtime-1.0-1
 >  in order to make it easier to down grade it if that is necessary.
 >  The mingw directory is deprecated and will be removed from setup
 > in about one month from today.


It seems that setup isn't ready for the sdesc and ldesc tags yet. I'm 
using setup.exe-2.97 that I compiled a few days ago, and I get the 
following complaint about those lines in the most recent setup.ini:
(I get the same error with the setup.exe on the cygwin.com webpage)

--Chuck