Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:49:12AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:24:02PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>> >"Fred T. Hamster" wrote:
>> >>   is the official installation process now involving a bunch of registry
>> >> edits before cygwin can be installed again, or is this setup program
>> >> actually quite busted?
>> >
>> >It appears that the new setup program is not operating correctly for
>> >SOME users.  This may be because setup itself is broken, or because the
>> >affected users have some wierdness in their local machine.
>> >
>> >In my case, I just used the new setup.exe to update a pre-existing
>> >install (that is, I used it to install the most recent inetutils,
>> >openssh, and python packages -- I already had older versions of those
>> >packages installed).
>> >
>> >It worked flawlessly.
>> 
>> Prediction:  It will work flawlessly for every person who is remotely
>> capable of debugging it.
>> 
>> The problems with weird directories being created sounds a lot like
>> random memory corruption.  Wish I could reproduce it.
>> 
>> Maybe I should try building it with electric fence or something.
>> 
>
>Don't you find it strange that the people that are having problems are
>the ones that are deleting their previous installation?  The workaround
>to this problem is don't delete your current installation, just use
>setup with the current installation.

Possibly, but I tried deleting my current installation and updated with
no problem.

I did eventually duplicate the problem on another machine.  It was due
to the use of a freed memory pointer.

It should be fixed now, so we can stop talking about this.

If it is not fixed, lets start a email thread.  This one should be
dead already.

cgf

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