From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Can't use install-path longer than 15 chars after 2.875 update
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 20:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160831192536.GA1128@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO1P101MB00700D9E94BC7B8B9E32F460BFE30@CO1P101MB0070.NAMP101.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
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On Aug 31 18:59, Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> > Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 2:39 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: EXT: Re: Can't use install-path longer than 15 chars after 2.875
> > update
> >
> > On Aug 31 20:22, Jacek Sowiński wrote:
> > > After updating to setup-x86_64.exe version 2.875 I can't use install
> > > paths longer than 15 chars and error is throwed:
> > >
> > > > The install directory must be absolute, with both a drive letter and
> > > > leading slash, like C:\Cygwin
> >
> > So what was your actual install path?
> >
> > FYI, I just used setup-2.875 to installed Cygwin into C:\cygwin-test-blubber-
> > test\test\test and it just worked.
>
> I can confirm that C:\apps\Cygwin64 does NOT work but C:\apps\Cygwin6
> does. I also get the error with C:\cygwin-test-blubber-test\test\test.
On what OS? You're not running it on XP by any chance? Is that on
32 or 64 bit?
[...time passes...]
I could reproduce it on W7 32 bit for some reaosn, while it works fine
all the time on W10 64 bit.
FWIW, I reverted setup to version 2.874 for the time being.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-31 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-31 19:00 Jacek Sowiński
2016-08-31 19:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-31 19:26 ` Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE)
2016-08-31 19:28 ` Brian Inglis
2016-08-31 20:14 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-08-31 20:19 ` Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE)
2016-09-01 3:22 ` Brian Inglis
2016-09-01 14:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-31 20:55 ` Jacek Sowiński
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