From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12549 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2019 00:57:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12461 invoked by uid 89); 7 Mar 2019 00:57:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=H*c:ISO-8859-1, experiment, H*Ad:U*mark, Looking X-HELO: m0.truegem.net Received: from m0.truegem.net (HELO m0.truegem.net) (69.55.228.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:57:46 +0000 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by m0.truegem.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) id x270vig5035188 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2019 16:57:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@maxrnd.com) Received: from 162-235-43-67.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net(162.235.43.67), claiming to be "[192.168.1.100]" via SMTP by m0.truegem.net, id smtpdta2ntS; Wed Mar 6 16:57:42 2019 Subject: Re: Annoying error messages from setup To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <2e2397a79c774d805d7a52dd2c5c3fb5@perezterron.net> From: Mark Geisert Message-ID: <07ab08b1-b0cf-0df0-8dbc-0f1ad9f500ef@maxrnd.com> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:57:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2e2397a79c774d805d7a52dd2c5c3fb5@perezterron.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00129.txt.bz2 Enrique Perez-Terron wrote: > For some time (several months), the setup program always finishes with the > following message: > >> Package: _/cygwin-doc >> cygwin-doc.sh exit code 3 >> Package: z/Perpetual >> zp_texlive_finish.dash exit code 20 > > Looking into setup.log.full, I find: > >> 2019/03/06 22:39:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile >> "/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh" >> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start >> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/User Guide (PDF).lnk" failed; does the target >> directory exist? >> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start >> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/User Guide (HTML).lnk" failed; does the target >> directory exist? >> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start >> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/API (PDF).lnk" failed; does the target directory exist? >> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start >> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/API (HTML).lnk" failed; does the target directory exist? >> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start >> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/Home Page.lnk" failed; does the target directory exist? >> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start >> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/FAQ.lnk" failed; does the target directory exist? >> 2019/03/06 22:39:57 abnormal exit: exit code=3 > > Where do the "/C:" parts in the middle of the link names come from? > Investigating, I find that mkshortcut is being called like this: > >> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/User Guide (PDF)" -d "Cygwin User Guide >> PDF" -- /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/cygwin-ug-net.pdf >> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/User Guide (HTML)" -d "Cygwin User Guide >> HTML" -- /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/html/cygwin-ug-net/index.html >> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/API (PDF)" -d "Cygwin API Reference PDF" >> -- /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/cygwin-api.pdf >> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/API (HTML)" -d "Cygwin API Reference >> HTML" -- /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/html/cygwin-api/index.html >> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/Home Page" -d "Cygwin Home Page Link" -a >> https://cygwin.com/index.html -- /usr/bin/cygstart >> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/FAQ" -d "Cygwin Frequently Asked >> Questions Link" -a https://cygwin.com/faq.html -- /usr/bin/cygstart > > There appears to be a bug in mkshortcut. > Could this be somehow related to my enabling native symbolic links? > (Not sure if this error began before I did that.) > I don't know where to find the source for mkshortcut, and not sure if somebody else > knows this program and can look into it. Should I report this somewhere? Consider it reported :-O. 'cygcheck -p mkshortcut' shows mkshortcut is part of the cygutils package. I'm the maintainer. You aren't using zsh as your shell, are you? I ask because zsh apparently has its own mkshortcut. Let me experiment a little bit and try to reproduce your first issue. Your second issue is something totally separate and I can't help with it. ..mark -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple