Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Repeated setup msgs: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:45:22 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g4ABkxA28576 > -----Original Message----- > From: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net [mailto:fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net] > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 7:13 PM > This phenomenon got some traffic during 4th/5th May, but > discussion seems to have died? The work week... > For 00th time did a fresh install today. Latest setup.exe. Please define latest. A version number will do. (I can think of three definitions off-hand)> > This is from Local Directory, by the way: but all .tar.bz2 > and -src.tar.bz2 and .tar.gz and -src.tar.gz are present in > the approprate directory under /release/, for [prev] and > [test] as well as [curr]. Ok. > Select absolutely everything. This time I selected all the > .src files as well, which I've never botherd with in the > past. During installation (which btw has been successful : > everything I've tried, works, as it always has in the past) > repeated message boxes > > "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" Urgh. I really want to squash that bug. > were presented to screen, always with reference to filename > -src. Just kept on clicking the message boxes away until > eventually the installation groaned its way to completion. > > I observe : > > 1. Three sets of source files _have_ actually been installed. > They are in > > /usr/src/src/diff > /usr/src/src/gperf > /usr/src/src/m4 > > 2. Note double /src/. Is this the correct location? No. That is definitely faulty. > 3. For each of these applications, there is no versioning in > the filename (as in bash-2.05a-3 for instance) : they are > just called diff, gperf and m4. Coincidence or what? That is up to the packager. > So it looks as though the "Can't open ..." failure is almost > but not quite reducible to a file-naming glitch? Dunno, but > hope this helps. It may. Thank you for the detailed analysis. This is really good stuff. > I have not tried a network installation from scratch, also > incorporating -src files. But I will, now. > > They are huge and awful (2 MB), so I will only send the > matching setup.log and setup.log.full if requested. Please send privately to me (bzip2'd). Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/