On Aug 31 21:22, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2016-08-31 13:28, Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE) wrote: > > > On Aug 31 18:59, Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE) wrote: > > > > > On Aug 31 20:22, Jacek Sowiński wrote: > > > > > > After updating to setup-x86_64.exe version 2.875 I can't use > > > > > > install paths longer than 15 chars and error is throwed: > > > > > > > The install directory must be absolute, with both a drive > > > > > > > letter and leading slash, like C:\Cygwin > > > > > So what was your actual install path? FYI, I just used > > > > > setup-2.875 to installed Cygwin into C:\cygwin-test-blubber- > > > > > test\test\test and it just worked. > > > > I can confirm that C:\apps\Cygwin64 does NOT work but > > > > C:\apps\Cygwin6 does. I also get the error with > > > > C:\cygwin-test-blubber-test\test\test. > > > On what OS? You're not running it on XP by any chance? Is that > > > on 32 or 64 bit? I could reproduce it on W7 32 bit for some reaosn, > > > while it works fine all the time on W10 64 bit. > > Fails on Win7 64 bit also. > > Sounds suspiciously close to _POSIX_NAME_MAX(==14) if backslash is > stripped and nul terminator is included in the count? > But can't find anything obvious grepping setup and newlib sources.
It was a C++ scope issue. We're still working on this stuff since it was apparently not the only such problem in the code... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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