setup.exe 2.592-1.7 built from sources seems buggy
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
Tue Jan 13 23:52:00 GMT 2009
On 2009-01-13, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> 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.
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