Installation hangs because asks for input from terminal

[Reini Urban]

Hi Alex,

Alexander Colesnicov schrieb:
> I tried to install cygwin and it hanged when executing
> /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh . To proceed further, I marked this
> script as "done" and all the rest was OK. Then I started cygwin and run
> this script manually. I found that it was a conflict with my existing
> fpTeX installation (fpTeX is a TeTeX port to Windows) that defined an
> environment variable TEXMFCNF to one of Windows directories. The script
> post-texmf.sh diagnosted that and asked for user's reaction. I redefined
> the variable in my .bashrc as TEXMFCNF="/usr/share/texmf/web2c:", and
> the script run. The bad thing is that the terminal window does not exist
> during setup.exe run. Therefore, the user can not react to script's
> questions. My recommedation is to reprogram post-texmf.sh in such a
> manner that it will never ask for user's intervention, and will set the
> TEXMFCNF variable uncoditionally to its true value to avoid the
> described conflict.

Could you please attach the output of
$ cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out
as described in http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Our setup.exe maintainers couldn't reproduce this problem on their 
systems. Any read in the postinstall script is just skipped.
Do you have Win95?
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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