Re: Please try new setup exe's

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 7/15/2013 8:20 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:05:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I'd appreciate it if people could try the two new setup.exe's
> > installed at http://cygwin.com/
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe for 32-bit
> > http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe for 64-bit
> >
> > The setup.ini's for both are updated using a similar schedule to the
> > "official and soon to be deleted" version which uses
> > /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/release.  The -x86* versions of these programs
> > use the release directories from the arch specific locations.
> >
> > The setup.ini's used by these two new programs are not
> > backwards-compatible with old setup.exe.
>
> Just to be clear, these new setup.exe's should not do anything untoward
> to your existing installation.  They should *just work*.

setup-x86_64.exe behaves differently from setup64.exe with respect to 
source-only packages.  (I don't know which one is "right".)  This is 
showing up for me because the 64-bit versions of gcc and readline are 
source-only packages that are (incorrectly?) required by other packages. 
 setup64.exe seems to ignore these requirements, whereas 
setup-x86_64.exe wants to install the packages but then reports 
"Incomplete download".

Ken