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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:03:52 +0100 (BST)
From: Cliff Hones <cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk>
Message-Id: <200107051403.PAA22808@trillian.uk.aonix.com>
To: robert AT chezmarshall DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-reply-to: <15172.27782.860000.865247@mail.chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk>
	(robert AT chezmarshall DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk)
Subject: Re: Problem in gdb installation
References:  <15172 DOT 27782 DOT 860000 DOT 865247 AT mail DOT chezmarshall DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>

> Yesterday I upgraded by cygwin installation, having previously
> installed a version back in November. I got the new setup.exe and
> copied it to C:\cygwin as setup-new.exe. I then ran it and downloaded
>various of the new/updated packages.

Ouch!  I imagine that would confuse setup.  You should have put setup.exe
anywhere but there - preferably in a new empty directory, or else wherever
you put it last November (as long as that wasn't C:\cygwin).


> I then reran it to install from the downloaded files, halfway through
> this whilst installing gdb (which I hadn't installed before), I got a
> message about moving cygwin out of the way.

Setup has a download repository (rooted where you put setup.exe) and
ain installation directory C:\cygwin by default).  My guess is that after
downloading all the new stuff, setup managed to rename its own directory
and then couldn't find its repository.  I doubt if this was gcc-specific.

> After this things rapidly deteriorated(!) and I got a large number
> of messages about not finding 'X' (usually a single  character) until I
> eventually killed off the install process.
> ...

Your best bet is to clear out everything from C:/cygwin except the new
cygwin.exe and the latest and contrib subdirectories, rename it
(eg C:/cygwindownload) and rerun setup.  It should find the
already-downloaded components (but will re-download its .ini file),
and will then build a brand new c:\cygwin for you.

-- Cliff

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