question on the cygwin setup command

[Andrew Chang]

> ===
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Chang" <awc@bitmover.com>
> To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:32 PM
> Subject: Re: question on the cygwin setup command
>
> > On Thursday 14 February 2002 08:21 pm, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Andrew Chang" <awc@bitmover.com>
> > >
> > > > OK, I found the code that need to be changed.
> > > > However the top-of-turnk "cinstall" seems to be incompatible
> > > > with cygwin1.3.9.
> > >
> > > Huh? What do you mean?
> > >
> > > Rob
> >
> > I compile it with no change, got a setup.exe
> > I ran the new setup.exe. choose "install from local directory"
> > I point it to a directory where I previously downloaded cygwin 1.3.9
>
> packages
>
> > with the standard layout.
> > It does not seem to installed anything, not even the default package.
> > I took that to means that does not like the cygwin 1.3.9 package
>
> layout.
>
> > You sounds like this is not suppose to happened ?
>
> It should pickup the setup.ini and use it. If nothings updated, then
> nothing will install (naturally).
>

I removed the setup.ini file, remove all of cygwin regustry entry, removed 
the c:/cygwin directry, and re-ran setup.exe, got the same problem. (note 
that if I switch to the old setup.exe, it worked fine)

Andrew

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