On Jun 30 18:31, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:38:46AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 29 13:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:46:00PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:01:52AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> >>On Jun 24 19:52, Achim Gratz wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> May I suggest that this sort of link (and the similar one in > >> >>> cygwinports) has potential to break mirror scripts in bad ways? Not > >> >>> quite as bad, but linking x86_64 -> 64bit also results in duplicates > >> >>> that aren't serving a good purpose. > >> >> > >> >>The x86 symlink break the "Install from directory" function of > >> >>setup.exe. It runs into some endless loop. If I remove the symlinks it > >> >>works as usual. I don't know why it does that at all. It has no > >> >>business reading these symlinks. If nobody beats me to it, I'll > >> >>investigate next week. > >> > > >> >Are you saying that this is happening with a CVS version of setup.exe? > > > >No, this occurs with the current 2.774 version from the home page. > > > >> >If not, it seems impossible that this symlink would cause an issue on a > >> >local install. > >> > > >> >Or, maybe you're copying the whole release area to your work area as > >> >you proposed in the cygwin list. > > > >We're using a local mirror and "Install from directory" from the local > >mirror for many, many years and it always worked fine. > > I'm still investigating this behavior.
I'll have a look, too. The 64 bit version now also misbehaves like the 32 bit version in terms of showing a broken package list. A first debugging attempt shows that it now neglects to parse the .ini file at all for some reason. > >The 64 bit 2.802 executable SEGVs immediately at startup. > > That one should be fixed. I'm not sure why it didn't SEGV on 32-bit > too. Different stack layout I guess. Yes, that's fixed, thank you. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
