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Date: | Thu, 30 May 2002 14:09:39 -0400 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror |
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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:32:19PM +0200, Ton van Overbeek wrote: >The error messages which Carl saw come from iniparse.cc, which in turn is produced >from the parser definition in iniparse.y. > >>From the definitions in iniparse.y it is clear that the sdesc and ldesc arguments >have to be put in quotes in order to be recognized as a single token. >So, as John said, the example at the bottom of the page >(http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html) is wrong and should be >corrected. (Rob, are you listening ?) What specific example are you looking at? % grep sdesc setup.html sdesc: <i>"some text"</i> <p><tt>sdesc</tt> and <tt>ldesc</tt> are both mandatory fields for the <tt>sdesc</tt> field is required for correct operation of setup.exe. <p><tt>sdesc</tt> is a one line description of the package. This is the <tt>sdesc: "boffo: A whackamole simulation in ASCII art"</tt> <tt>sdesc: "A whackamole simulation in ASCII art"</tt> sdesc: "A whackamole simulation in ASCII art" <tt>sdesc: "A whackamole simulation in ASCII art"</tt><br> <tt>sdesc: "Runtime library for a whackamole simulation in ASCII art"</tt><br> They all seem to have quotes to me. cgf
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