Thanks, the shorter path worked. Checking the base path against the longest path to be retrieved before the setup starts might be a good enhancement so that the user can get a helpful message.
--Ray -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:01 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Retrieve fails with apparently bad path On 23/07/2010 20:25, Clark, Raymond (WBST) wrote: > Selected "All" to "download only" > > About 31% of the way through, a dialog box with the following popped up: > > Can't open > C:\users\clark\Public\PC-SystemStuff\cygwin-1.7.5_2010.07.23\cygwin-1.7. > 5_2010.07.23_Download\http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fc > yg win%2f\release\GNOME\gobject-introspection1.0-0.6.14-1.tar.bz2.tmp > for > writing: No such file or directory > > The directory: > > C:\users\clark\Public\PC-SystemStuff\cygwin-1.7.5_2010.07.23\cygwin-1.7. > 5_2010.07.23_Download\http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fc > yg win%2f\release\GNOME\gobject-introspection1.0 > (CORRECTION is to append 1.0 to the directory name) > > exists. > > Any idea what is wrong? I am running on Windows XP SP3. I'm not sure, but you're pushing right up against the limits of a win32 file path there. Does it work if you use a local package directory with a shorter path? Try something directly under C:\users\clark\Public and see if that works, or maybe just removing one of the "cygwin-1.7.5_2010.07.23" levels from your existing path will make it short enough. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
