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Re: Setup.exe seems to hang
- From: luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:17:06 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Setup.exe seems to hang
On 2 Sep, Robert Collins wrote:
> > I'd still be interested to know what setup is doing at that point. It
> > might give us a clue as to why setup's performance varies across such a
> > wide range. (If Cygwin was already installed, could we strace
> > setup.exe?)
>
> no - it's not a cygwin app.
That's what I thought. Fair enough.
> > Has some change to setup in a recent snapshot targeted the problem?
>
> Yes, 6 months ago IIRC.
Hmm. We're using a nightly mirrored copy, but looking at the file's
properties, I see it dates from April 7th, 2003. So grabbing the
snapshot might be a good idea!
I'm surprised that the latest version on the mirror site is almost 5
months old.
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cygwin/
....
setup.exe 07-Apr-2003 23:20 253k
setup.exe.old 09-Mar-2003 11:08 180k
setup.ini 30-Aug-2003 22:50 213k
When was the last version of setup.exe released?
luke
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