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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:30:22PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>From your cygcheck output, I have to conclude that 'setup.exe' didn't
>run its postinstall scripts.  You can verify this by looking in
>'c:\cygwin\etc\postinstall' for any scripts without a '.done' suffix.

It just occurred to me that having cygcheck look for uncompleted
postinstall scripts and/or displaying the contents of the postinstall
directory might be a nice thing to have for debugging problems.

Is anyone interested in providing a patch to do this?

cgf

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