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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lghxel9t.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANA-60oR+VyYhkySdMKOA77YvbTQ6kAH8-K8ai_CLbGDKzAfxg@mail.gmail.com>	(Arkady's message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:37:45 +0200")

Arkady writes:
> Another update: the quite mode sometimes succeeds. I estimate that the
> success rate is 30%. It rarely succeeds very first time.
>
> The problem is definitely not new. See, for example,
> https://github.com/boxcutter/windows/blob/master/floppy/cygwin.bat#L50
> The batch start with rather encouraging "Force CYGWIN_ARCH to 32-bit -
> 64-bit seems to crash a lot"

This is long outdated nonsense just like many of the options they use in
the CYGWIN environment variable (that are also missing a space, so they
wouldn't have worked on an old enough Cygwin either.

BTW, you shouldn't download setup-x86_64 and then store it as setup-x86
in CYGWIN.PS1.


Regards,
Achim.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-20 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-18 17:42 Arkady
2017-12-18 18:07 ` Arkady
2017-12-18 18:08   ` Arkady
2017-12-18 19:29     ` Arkady
2017-12-19  0:27   ` Arkady
2017-12-19  9:14     ` Brian Inglis
2017-12-19  9:51     ` Arkady
2017-12-19 12:46       ` Arkady
2017-12-19 14:22         ` Arkady
2017-12-19 18:38       ` cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quiet-mode Brian Inglis
2017-12-20 12:25       ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2017-12-20 10:40 ` cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode Achim Gratz
2017-12-20 12:39   ` Arkady
2017-12-20 12:43     ` Arkady
2017-12-20 12:59       ` Arkady
2017-12-20 14:08         ` Arkady
2017-12-20 16:14           ` Jon Turney
2017-12-20 16:38       ` n8tm via cygwin

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