Quoting Mark J. Reed at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/111151 : % On "Cygwin Setup - Select Local Package Directory", it says "The % directory will be created if it does not already exist." But if I % type in the name of a new folder (whose parent folder exists), and I % get this error message: % % Could not change dir to [...full path...]: The system cannot find the % file specified. [00000002] % [Abort][Retry][Ignore] This is a regression. It would be good if 1.7 Setup would automatically create the local package directory that the user specifies, even if it did not already exist. 1.5 Setup does it, so it would be good if 1.7 Setup could too.
I, too, experience the behavior Mark reported. I am using Setup 2.649.
Fixed by Dave Korn/Corinna Vinschen.