X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43CBE446.A2B68CAD@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:21:58 -0800 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine References: <43C789D2.8020505@equate.dyndns.org> <1137201240.1365.251826199@webmail.messagingengine.com> <43C851B8.3000307@equate.dyndns.org> <1137203965.3893.251827605@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20060116075609.GB2088@efn.org> <20060116082330.GA3656@efn.org> <43CB6CA1.90300@equate.dyndns.org> <20060116112337.GB2148@efn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > Uh, you are right. Sorry guys, I haven't read the entire phrase written by > > Yitzchak ... my fault. > > It looks like I am too used to the idea of programs writing their messages > > to stdin/stdout . > > It certainly qualifies as "quaint" behavior. If you want to know the reason why it prints the output to the log file instead of to stdout, there is a very long and drawn out discussion about it on setup-apps. The summary is that there is no way to make setup.exe able to reliably output to stdout *without* also having a brief flash of a console window every time it is run, which rightfully drives some people nuts. There is actually a way to achieve this, but the necessary console API function was only added in windows XP. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/