[PATCH/CFT] Fix setup.exe COM initialisation problem.

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 4 15:16:00 GMT 2009


Dave?  Hello?

On Oct 30 15:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Oct 24 11:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Oct 24 01:53, Dave Korn wrote:
> > > Charles Wilson wrote:
> > > > Dave Korn wrote:
> > > >>   However because of the scary comment about win7, I think this must be a
> > > >> slightly hairy and not necessarily entirely backward-compatible area.  I've
> > > >> tested it on XP and 2k; can anyone help out by checking it on any of
> > > >> NT/2k3/Vista/2k8/W7 for me?
> > > >> [...]
> > > > Windows Vista SP2: it did create the shortcuts.
> > > > 
> > > > However, on exit I got the "This program might not have installed
> > > > correctly...'Reinstall using recommended settings' or [confirm] 'This
> > > > program installed correctly'" dialog box.  Is that an indication of
> > > > crash-on-exit?  The log files seemed to be fine.
> > > 
> > >   I think that's a UAC thingy to do with how elevated it was or was not and
> > 
> > I tested setup with your patch applied on two Windows 7 32 and one 64 bit
> > machine and it worked fine in all three cases.  I didn't even get the
> > above "This program might not have installed correctly..." message, even
> > though I got it when using setup without your patch.  Looks like a clear
> > win to me.
> 
> any reason that you didn't check this in already?


Corinna

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