Setup.exe Problems on Vista

[Michael D. Adams]

On 4/22/07, Michael D. Adams <mdmkolbe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:
> > "Michael D. Adams" wrote:
> >
> > > The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the
> > > *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe.  So
> > > for example this sequence works:
> > >
> > > set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH%
> > > setup.exe
> > >
> > > Then /bin/sh is actually created, the prompt is the usual Cygwin settings, etc.
> > > Of course the proper solution would be to find and fix the root cause.
> > >  Is this a known bug?  Is there any other info I can provide to help
> > > find the root cause? (I'm suspicious that Vista might not allow the
> > > program to set PATH.)
> >
> > That would be pretty brain dead if Vista did not allow programs to
> > modify the PATH.  That would cause about a million failures in Cygwin
> > and various programs.
>
> See Morgan's responce.  It's brain dead, but that's Vista for you.
>
> > > OS: Vista Home Premium
> > > Setup.exe Version: 2.510.2.2 (run without administraitor permission)
> >
> > Please try the latest setup.exe snapshot, if you can.  And even better
> > would be to debug the problem.  I don't have access to a Vista system
> > but if I did I think I would start by running it under gdb/insight and
> > putting a breakpoint at script.cc:run() right before CreateProcess and
> > check the environment.  Or create a test package with a postinstall that
> > just runs "env > /tmp/foo" or "sleep 1h" or something so that you can
> > inspect the environment.
>
> Where are those snapshots located?  A quick google didn't turn them up.
>
> Since I already have a Cygwin install, does Cygwin play ok if I put a
> second install (for testing the snapshot) or do I need to remove the
> old Cygwin install first?
>

Eh, gmail sent before I meant it to.

Last thing I wanted to say was to note that I'm not set up for
developing cygwin.  So while I'm happy to run test builds, I haven't a
clue how to build setup.exe or a package. (Unfortunately my
involvement in other open source projects doesn't leave me with the
time to learn how to do that either.)

Michael D. Adams
mdmkolbe@gmail.com

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