setup.exe does not always install cygwin1.dll?

setup.exe does not always install cygwin1.dll?

[Jeroen W. Pluimers (All I'M)]

Environment:
W2K SP2 with the following drive allocation:
C: W2K boot manager
E: system drive
I: Internet mirror drive

What I did is the following on the I: drive

wget -m -np ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/md5.sum
wget -m -np
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe
wget -m -np
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.ini
wget -m -np ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/latest/
wget -m -np ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/contrib/
wget -m -np ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/

Then on the command-line, I did a CD to
I:\mirrors.rcn.net\mirrors\sources.redhat.com\cygwin and ran setup.exe from
that directory.
In setup, I chose an install from a local drive, and maintained the
'default' options.

Setup then installs into E:\cygwin, but does not install cygwin1.dll into
E:\cygwin\bin
Because it doesn't, some of the 'final' tasks of the setup cannot be
completed.

Since setup.exe does not warn that it cannot install cygwin1.dll, I wonder
what goes wrong?

Am I doing something wrong? If yes: what?
Is the setup doing something wrong? If yes: how can I assist into getting it
fixed?

--jeroen






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Re: setup.exe does not always install cygwin1.dll?

[Jon Foster]

Hi,

"Jeroen W. Pluimers (All I'M)" wrote:
> What I did is the following on the I: drive
>
> wget -m -np
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/md5.sum
> wget -m -np
> ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe
> wget -m -np
> ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.ini
> wget -m -np
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/latest/
> wget -m -np
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/contrib/
> wget -m -np ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/
>
> Then on the command-line, I did a CD to
> I:\mirrors.rcn.net\mirrors\sources.redhat.com\cygwin and ran setup.exe
from
> that directory.
> In setup, I chose an install from a local drive, and maintained the
> 'default' options.

> Am I doing something wrong?
Yes.

> If yes: what?
You're not downloading the new "release" directory.  From setup.ini:

: @ cygwin
: sdesc: "The UNIX emulation engine"
: category: Base
: version: 1.3.10-1
: install: release/cygwin/cygwin-1.3.10-1.tar.bz2 896850
: source: release/cygwin/cygwin-1.3.10-1-src.tar.bz2 3878779

Try:
wget -m -np ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/

Kind regards,

Jon Foster
--
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at
the ground and miss." - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

E-mail: jon@jon-foster.co.uk
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Re: setup.exe does not always install cygwin1.dll?

[Jeroen W. Pluimers (All I'M)]

"Jon Foster" <jon@jon-foster.co.uk> wrote in message
news:021201c1e616$4ce639b0$ad01a8c0@jj...

> > Am I doing something wrong?
> Yes.

Good to know that (big sigh of relief <g>).

> > If yes: what?
> You're not downloading the new "release" directory.  From setup.ini:

> : install: release/cygwin/cygwin-1.3.10-1.tar.bz2 896850

I see. Feel quite stupid now.
But still one question left: why doesn't the cygwin installer warn that it
cannot find some required files?

> Try:
> wget -m -np
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/

I just did (took quite some time, even on ADSL <g>) and it now installs
more, but still things were missing (for instance cygpcre.dll).
Seems one other thing that went wrong: there are symlinks from release to
latest, but W2K does not support symlinks (yeah technically it does, but in
practice it doesn't) so not all stuff from release got installed.

Adding the --retr-symlinks option to wget helps though.

Thanks very much for your insight.

--jeroen






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Re: setup.exe does not always install cygwin1.dll?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Jeroen W. Pluimers (All I'M) wrote:
>> Try:
>> wget -m -np
>ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/
>
>I just did (took quite some time, even on ADSL <g>) and it now installs
>more, but still things were missing (for instance cygpcre.dll).
>Seems one other thing that went wrong: there are symlinks from release to
>latest, but W2K does not support symlinks (yeah technically it does, but in
>practice it doesn't) so not all stuff from release got installed.

Of course they're supported.  cygwin has supported symlinks for a LONG
time.

>Adding the --retr-symlinks option to wget helps though.

You realize that you're attempting to do things the hard way, right?  If
you use setup everything should just work.  Bypassing setup is really not
something that we want to spend too much time discussing here.

cgf

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Re: setup.exe does not always install cygwin1.dll?

[Jeroen W. Pluimers (All I'M)]

"Christopher Faylor" <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote in message
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> >Adding the --retr-symlinks option to wget helps though.

> You realize that you're attempting to do things the hard way, right?  If
> you use setup everything should just work.  Bypassing setup is really not
> something that we want to spend too much time discussing here.

I understand. Maybe I should have explained what I was up to:
The 'big' goal  is to have cygwin with OpenSSH running on some low-bandwidth
W2K systems for remote maintenance.
To do that, I wanted to make a setup CD-ROM to run cygwin on some machines
that don't have a high speed internet connection.
Then on those low-bandwidth machines, run wanted to run setup.exe from
CD-ROM and install from that local directory tree.
Since I use wget for almost all the other site mirroring stuff, I thought
that would be a good path to follow.
Starting setup.exe having that make a download seems to work much better
however.

--jeroen






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