***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-msys] MSYS-1.0.11 order of installation?

["Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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version of this email in HTML.  Mea maxima culpa!  I forgot to set my 
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as it should have in the first place.


Hi all,
 
I have been reading as many messages related to installation of msys 
as I can in the mingw-msys archive, but I did not see any posts that 
describe which MSYS-1.0.11 files should be installed in which order to 
update a base msys-1.0.10 system to whatever the current state of 
msys-1.0.11 may or should be.
 
I have used MinGW-5.1.3.exe to install gcc and g++, then installed 
MSYS-1.0.11.exe as recommended.  My directory structure is also as 
recommended, c:\msys\1.0 for msys and c:\msys\1.0\mingw for gcc and 
g++.  I DL'd and ran msysDTK-1.0.1.exe as well.
 
Now I would like to update to msys-1.0.11 as far as possible, so I 
DL'd all the "Technology Preview" *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2 files on the 
download page under MSYS Base System, but there isn't a reference 
anywhere I could find that indicates in what order these archives 
should be installed, if any order is needed.
 
In particular, I now have both msysCORE-1.0.11-2007.01.19-1.tar.bz2 
and coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2.  The msysCORE archive 
seems to have about half the utilities dated 2002 and 2003 and the 
rest in January 2007, while the base msys-1.1.10 installed all the 
core utilities dated in March 2004.  The coreutilis snapshot has many 
of the same utilities (but not all of them) dated in August 2007. 
 Plus the coreutils snapshot has a different directory structure, with 
an extra level named "coreutils-5.97" above the bin/doc/info/lib 
directories.
 
So should the msysCORE be installed first and the coreutils snapshot 
laid over that?  Should the coreutils contents be copied after 
extracting the archive to the regular msys directories?
 
What about the individual utility sets like findutils and diffutils? 
 Should they be installed over the msysCORE and coreutils snapshot, or 
instead of one or both of them, or not at all?
 
And I have similar questions for the DTK utilities.  Should I use 
autoconf-2.5-2.61 or autoconf-2.1-2.13?  automake-1.9 or automake-1.10 
or automake-3-1?  Should I install gettext-1.16.1-1.bin or 
gettext-0.16.1-MSYS-1.0.11-1?
 
If there is a page or a message or set of messages I need to read to 
clear up my confusion, please point me to them and I will do so.
 
TIA for any help you can provide.
 
Regards,
 
Peter


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