Re: setup.exe in the "latest" directory (more installer testing)

[Mikey <jrson at freewwweb dot com>]

The error 22's indicate that bash/sh/ash is
trying to shellexec a file with \r\n on a binary mount filesystem (or similar)
do you have text mounts and the setup exec is forcing them to
binary? or is the installer not using binmode pipes for tar?
or is tar output being piped via cmd.exe? cmd.exe will always
use text mode pipes ;-)
is the extraction of autoconf.tar to an unmounted/text mounted filesystem
and the install to a binary mounted one?

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 07:31:45 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>I am installing from the local hard drive. I downloaded all the
>packages from the "latest" directory and tried to run the setup.exe
>program.
>
>setup.exe was sitting in the latest/ subdirectory, and when I
>ran it I got a bunch of "Unable to extract" errors from tar. I
>thought these errors had been fixed by a recent patch that
>stopped cygwin from trying to concat a '/' onto the path
>if the path was '/'. Perhaps these changes did not make
>it onto a release branch in the CVS or something?
>
>Press <enter> to accept the default value.
>Root directory? [C:\Cygwin] Install from the current directory (d) or from
>the Internet (i)? [i]
>Installing ash.tar.gz
>Unable to extract "ash.tar.gz": No error
>Installing bash.tar.gz
>Unable to extract "bash.tar.gz": No error
>Installing binutils-19990818-1.tar.gz
>Unable to extract "binutils-19990818-1.tar.gz": No error
>Installing bison.tar.gz
>Unable to extract "bison.tar.gz": No error
>
>These errors were not captured to setup.log by the way.
>I thought that had been implemented.
>
>I was able to work around the problem by moving setup.exe
>up a directory level before running it. There is almost
>nobody that is going to know to do that, so we need to
>make sure that the installer is fixed before the
>"net release" is finshed.
>
>After it finished installing, I tried out the uninstall
>script. It worked better than the last version but it
>still printed out lots of errors and it did not prompt
>me to confirm the uninstall before it actually did
>anything. Here is what it printed.
>
>
>Invalid path, not directory,
>or directory not empty
>File not found - C:\Cygwin\usr\man\mann\NoteBook.n
>File not found
>Invalid path, not directory,
>or directory not empty
>Invalid path, not directory,
>or directory not empty
>File not found
>Invalid path, not directory,
>or directory not empty
>Invalid path, not directory,
>or directory not empty
>Invalid path, not directory,
>or directory not empty
>Invalid path, not directory,
>or directory not empty
>File not found
>File not found
>Invalid path, not directory,
>or directory not empty
>Batch file missing
>
>C:\Cygwin>File not found
>
>I then needed to go click the little X in the box because
>the program did not terminate when it finished. (is this
>a DOS thing?) I double checked that this installer had
>removed the files, it had. It did not remove a bunch
>or directories though.
>
>I also tried installing twice (to overwrite an existing
>install) but that failed with the same old "Permission
>Denied" errors while trying to install gdb. I thought
>those errors had been fixed too, am I missing something?
>
>I got a random core dump inside cygwin1.dll while doing
>a test install. I have no idea what caused it and
>I am sure this output will not help track down the
>problem, but here it is. It seems impossible to debug
>a core dump in the installer because you need the dev
>tools installed to be able to run gdb.
>
>TAR caused an invalid page fault in
>module CYGWIN1.DLL at 0137:610204e0.
>
>So now I thought, ok I will test out
>the compiler. I wanted to try to
>compile a program that I know
>will compile with cygwin, but
>I did not have autoconf and
>the src code for the program
>only came with a configure.in
>script. So I tried to install
>autoconf on my cygwin dist. I
>grabbed to 2.13 dist of autoconf
>and ran ./configure ; make install
>to install autoconf. After autoconf
>was installed I ran it (this checks
>that /usr/local/bin appears on the
>PATH as set in cygwin.bat).
>
>BASH.EXE-2.03$ autoconf
>: error 22
>: error 22
>: error 22
>: error 22
>: error 22
>: error 22
>/USR/LOCAL/BIN/autoconf: 41: Syntax error: expecting "in"
>
>I don't know what the deal is here, but autoconf 2.13 will
>not run when installed on cygwin. If version 2.13 was
>never tested on cygwin and some newer "yet to be released"
>version of autoconf is required, we really need to rethink
>not including an autoconf that works in the net release.
>A uncompressed autoconf install is only about 800K, and I am
>sure a compressed .tar.gz install file would not add
>much to the download time.
>
>Mo Dejong
>Red Hat Inc.
>