directory y: exe runs properly, directory x: exe quits straightaway

i am porting an application built with Visual C++ to build under Mingw gcc (CXX=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-g++) in my development directory x, the program apparently builds correctly, but it quits directly when run. when i copy the exe to another directory y, the program runs well. also, in the

incident during setup on newly built system

[[file fragment: /var/log/setup.log.full]] Found ini file - E:\mlo/setup.ini INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\mlo/release/inetutils/inetutils-1.7-2.tar.bz2 - Size mismatch: Ini-file: 385658 != On-disk: 385652 INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\mlo/release/inetutils/inetutils-1.7-2-src.tar.bz2 - Size mismatch: I

cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html.gz does not contain an html document

re: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net.html One large compressed HTML file http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html.gz -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cyg

python 2.7 module binascii not found

i have newly installed cygwin python 2.7 (python-2.7.3-1) where i formerly used python 2.6.5. my programs with "import urllib" now crash. module urllib wants module base64 which wants module binascii. there is no /usr/lib/python2.7/binascii.py but there is /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/binasci