On 16/05/2017 15:06, Jon Turney wrote:
I don't know why unrecognized options aren't fatal errors.
So, I might have been misled by my low opinion of setup here:
$ ./setup-x86_64 --user-agent=anything
Error during option processing.
[...]
Can you give an example of a setup command line containing an invalid
option which "quietly does nothing" rather than reporting an error?
Depending on the results of the tests suggested with wget, I may
consider changing or removing the user-agent reported by cygwin setup,
or providing such an option.
This snapshot adds a --user-agent option, which allows the user agent
string to be specified.
https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878-8-gee3cea.x86.exe
https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878-8-gee3cea.x86_64.exe