Frank Adrian wrote: > Seems to be fixed now. Thanks whomever... > > faa > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Adrian > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:17 PM > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' > Subject: Setup.exe parse error while reading .ini file setup.bz2 > > I am running on a WXP Pro system. Today I tried to grab an application using > setup.exe. While downloading the .ini file setup.bz2, I received a dialog > having the following error message: > > (null) line 10196: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting > $STRING > > I downloaded the latest version of setup.exe, as well as trying other > download archives, but continued getting the same error. I haven't had any > problems with downloading apps previously, so my supposition is that there > was some sort of error in creating the source of the ini file and that this > bad file was pushed out to the mirror sites > > Frank A. Adrian
Indeed, and no supposition was required - just a quick scan of this list would have revealed the previous thread "error parsing setup.bz2 in setup.exe": http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00164.html Perhaps we need a cron job to inject that link into the list periodically for a few days. -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
