setup bug...

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:16:43PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>In setup-1.7, on the "Select Local Package Directory" page, it says:
>
>Select a directory where you want Setup to store the installation files
>it downloads. The directory will be created if it does not already
>exist.
>
>So, I type in a directory name:
>
>C:\TEMP\cygwin17
>
>C:\TEMP exists, but cygwin17 does not. I get the following error popup:
>
>Could not change dir to C:\TEMP\cywin17: The system cannot find the file
>specified. [00000001]
>Abort Retry Ignore.
>
>
>If I manually create the cygwin17 directory (and click Retry),
>everything proceeds normally.
>
>This seems to be a new error, because this used to work. I won't have
>much time to track this down myself for a couple of weeks, so I figured
>I should document it here...

Yeah, Mark J. Reed noticed this back in September.  I've been keeping
his message in my inbox as a "todo" item just in case no one else got
around to it:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00752.html

I looked into this briefly back then and I don't think I saw any
possibility that this ever worked but maybe I was wrong.

cgf