From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20403 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2009 23:13:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 20395 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jan 2009 23:13:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:13:21 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LMsRg-0003yw-T2 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:13:17 +0000 Received: from 64.251.14.41 ([64.251.14.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:13:16 +0000 Received: from grante by 64.251.14.41 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:13:16 +0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Grant Edwards Subject: Re: setup.exe 2.592-1.7 built from sources seems buggy Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:52:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00405.txt.bz2 On 2009-01-13, Grant Edwards wrote: > I built setup.exe from the sources in setup-2.592-1.7special.tar.bz2, > and the resulting program seems a bit buggy. There have been > two problems I've noticed so far: > > 1) It stopped and complatined that release/gcc/gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2 > wasn't a valid file format. Yet tar seems quite happy with > it. > > 2) About 6-8 times during the install, it stopped and > complained > > Can't open file://D:\cygwin/ for reading: No such file > > The working directory when setup.exe was started was > d:/cygwin, and the packages are all in d:/cygwin/release [...] I switched to 2.573.2.3, and all of those problems went away. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Why is everything made at of Lycra Spandex? visi.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/