Please try new setup exe's
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Jul 16 01:50:00 GMT 2013
On 7/15/2013 8:20 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:05:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I'd appreciate it if people could try the two new setup.exe's
>> installed at http://cygwin.com/
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe for 32-bit
>> http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe for 64-bit
>>
>> The setup.ini's for both are updated using a similar schedule to the
>> "official and soon to be deleted" version which uses
>> /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/release. The -x86* versions of these programs
>> use the release directories from the arch specific locations.
>>
>> The setup.ini's used by these two new programs are not
>> backwards-compatible with old setup.exe.
>
> Just to be clear, these new setup.exe's should not do anything untoward
> to your existing installation. They should *just work*.
setup-x86_64.exe behaves differently from setup64.exe with respect to
source-only packages. (I don't know which one is "right".) This is
showing up for me because the 64-bit versions of gcc and readline are
source-only packages that are (incorrectly?) required by other packages.
setup64.exe seems to ignore these requirements, whereas
setup-x86_64.exe wants to install the packages but then reports
"Incomplete download".
Ken
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