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: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160901143654.GA2201@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d3f3532-ca2b-4b99-94bd-08a4a0761d17@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
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On Aug 31 21:22, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2016-08-31 13:28, Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE) wrote:
> > > On Aug 31 18:59, Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE) wrote:
> > > > > 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? I could reproduce it on W7 32 bit for some reaosn,
> > > while it works fine all the time on W10 64 bit.
> > Fails on Win7 64 bit also.
>
> Sounds suspiciously close to _POSIX_NAME_MAX(==14) if backslash is
> stripped and nul terminator is included in the count?
> But can't find anything obvious grepping setup and newlib sources.
It was a C++ scope issue. We're still working on this stuff since
it was apparently not the only such problem in the code...
Corinna
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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
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 [this message]
2016-08-31 20:55 ` Jacek Sowiński
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