Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sun Aug 28 15:46:29 GMT 2022
On 25/08/2022 19:14, Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote:
> And this was exactly it. I downloaded the latest UPX version, and it
> crashed on startup. I downloaded the Linux version on another host,
> copied the setup program to that host and extracted it there. NOW I
> can update Cygwin...
I wonder if UPX compression of setup makes as much sense now as it did
20+ years ago.
Not only does it (occasionally) generate problems like this, but
also with malware detection heuristics.
OTOH, not using it would make setup ~4x larger.
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