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RE: Retrieve fails with apparently bad path
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-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@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
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