preventing setup from forking

[Jon Turney]

On 17/05/2021 20:59, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> When I run
> 
> c:\inst\setup-x86_64.exe -q -f -R c:\cygwin64 -l c:\inst -P libgcrypt-devel,asciidoc,cygport,gcc-g++,libpoppler-cpp-devel,libpcre-devel,dejagnu,texlive-collection-latex
> 
> or
> 
> c:\inst\setup-x86_64.exe -qvW -f -R c:\cygwin64 -l c:\inst -P libgcrypt-devel,asciidoc,cygport,gcc-g++,libpoppler-cpp-devel,libpcre-devel,dejagnu,texlive-collection-latex
> 
> the prompt returns immediately. This is causing problems when it is run from a (windows) ssh session.

--wait should be doing what you want.

I recently discovered that if the invoking shell is PowerShell, then 
because setup is a GUI application, PowerShell doesn't wait, so maybe 
that's what's happening here...

> Any thoughts?