X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:08:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Vinod Gupta cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Un-attended install ALL In-Reply-To: <4523F0B7.8000205@princeton.edu> Message-ID: References: <4523CF2A.3010905@princeton.edu> <4523F0B7.8000205@princeton.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: > On 2006-10-04 11:55, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: > > > > > > All this pain, just because some one did not include > > > > "--InstallAll" option to setup.exe?? > > > > > > > > As the saying goes, . Of course, you > > > > can always look to see if any of your issues with 'setup.exe' are > > > > addressed by a snapshot . > > > > > > > Thanks Lary. > > > When I ran the latest "setup-2.551.exe --help" I got no output at all. > > > > Check the log file. > > Igor > > And where that log is supposed to be? Surely not /var/log/setup.log > because cygwin is not yet installed. It's setup.log in the directory you ran setup from. > Moreover, why should the output of "setup-2.551.exe --help" be sent to > any log file? Read the cygwin-apps archives -- there's a long discussion of that exact issue. In a word, it's because setup cannot reliably write to the console without other adverse effects. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/