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From:	"Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To:	"'Dave Korn'" <dk AT artimi DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Is setup.exe _supposed_ to delete the cygwin dll before attempting to run shell scripts?
Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:40:57 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn
> Sent: 24 September 2004 17:32

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn
> > Sent: 24 September 2004 17:11
> 
> >   I just decided to update my cygwin install for the first 
> > time in a while.
> > 
> >   During the uninstalling old stuff stage, all the uninstall 
> > scripts started
> > failing with "Can't find cygwin1.dll".
> > 
> >   Sure enough, that's because setup.exe had indeed deleted
> > c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll.
> 
>   So I manually copied it back and am trying again.
> 
>   This time it fails at "Uninstalling x-start-menu-icons" 
> because seq.exe
> can't find cygiconv-2.dll.  I'm fairly sure I used to have 
> that, so setup
> must have deleted it as well.

  And of course there's no easy way to restore that one once it's gone,
because I can't run tar without cygiconv-2.dll, so I can't get it back from
my setup directory.  And even if I did have a way of untar-ing it, there's
still no way I could get it, because setup has helpfully deleted bzip2 for
me.

  Is there _anything_ in setup that is supposed to make sure it doesn't
delete executable files that it vitally needs to successfully complete its
operations?



    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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