From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 54393 invoked by alias); 31 Aug 2016 19:12:13 -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 54380 invoked by uid 89); 31 Aug 2016 19:12:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=sk:downloa, calgary, Hx-spam-relays-external:64.59.136.139, Calgary X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:12:02 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([174.0.238.184]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id fAvXbfSaygdalfAvYbNOMd; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:12:01 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=Q++Q2M+a c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:117 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=PrrE3-KTAAAA:8 a=b4eMD0GmHX_ZvWjD-W0A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=rB81Y03d9IYvG-749Y1b:22 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Can't use install-path longer than 15 chars after 2.875 update References: <20160831182233.GC10084@OPTI105> <20160831183839.GG22389@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <66d48de7-b4e8-cbe9-a094-c7eda496a896@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:28:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfCGY2the86XC2BtdXwfz6FpjQZ0fThgq8Jd4xqQNj13XJiZtw00A42odpOFgdXdbU9wz6E3edDjEgufZcige9+UmkZR9fm5/dgkmApCRGAziQ5mPNCho V3sdzxiTTqFu0H58V0khEoFWcEVk2fbkk3CqOLhr+AXjlUPXmqE870abi9ABXiroJfXjcwWpeRcx5Q== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00651.txt.bz2 On 2016-08-31 12:59, 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. No problems updating cygwin today with setup-x86_64.exe 2.875: $ uname -srvmo CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) 2016-08-31 14:32 x86_64 Cygwin $ head -n 2 /etc/setup/setup.rc last-cache C:/usr/local/cygwin64/var/cache/setup/packages Brian@BWInglisD ~ 2013 $ tail -n 8 /etc/setup/setup.rc last-mirror ftp://ftp.muug.ca/mirror/cygwin/ net-method Direct last-action Download,Install chooser_window_settings 44,0,1,4294967295,4294967295,4294967295,4294967295,101,401,1090,1181 $ -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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