setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"
Jay
jayk123@hotmail.com
Sun Aug 10 13:33:00 GMT 2008
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> From: jayk123@hotmail.com
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com; dave.korn@artimi.com; brian@dessent.net; andry@inbox.ru
> Subject: Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:35:51 +0000
>
> [B] From: brian@
>
> [B] ...I think...and we should just have
> [B] bash provide /bin/sh directly without the complicated postinstall
> [B] gymnastics. There was the objection that the current scheme obstensibly
> [B] allows for the user to use any shell as /bin/sh, but I question how many
> [B] people are aware of this let alone desire to take advantage of it.
>
> [D] From: dave.korn@
> ...
> [D] The problem is that no matter whether bash or ash install /bin/sh,
> [D] terminfo is going to be installed first, and that means
> [D] /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh is pretty much doomed to failure.
[J]
I assume Brian wants bash.tar.bz2 to just have a second copy
of bash at bin/sh.exe, or a symlink or hardlink,
unconditionally overwriting whatever is there.
Rather than having a postinstall program copy it conditionally.
?
And that all the extraction happens before any install code runs. ?
- Jay
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