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Re: setup.exe 2.592-1.7 built from sources seems buggy


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.

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! Why is everything made
                                  at               of Lycra Spandex?
                               visi.com            


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