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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:41:55 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: "Hill, William (Daul)" <william DOT hill AT matrixone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone else having problems with setup and rcn.net - using latest
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"Hill, William (Daul)" wrote:
> 
> David Karr wrote :
> Just for confirmation, I also just downloaded the latest "setup.exe" and got
> these same errors with most of the mirror sites that I tried.  However, I
> managed to get "ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at"; to work.
> 
> ----------------------------
> 
> What was not mentioned, was that you receive the following window:
> 
> Cygwin Setup
> This setup.ini is older than the one you used last time you installed
> cygwin.  Proceed anyway?
> 
> Does that mean that the setup.ini has been changed incorrectly?
> 
> I did take a look at the erroneous setup.ini on line 88.  It's the last line
> of a description,
> that IMHO someone mis-edited.  It looks like someone added double-quotes in
> the middle of the
> description even though the description delimiter is a double-quote.
> 
> From setup.ini
> ---------------
> @ automake
> sdesc: "Wrapper scripts for automake-devel and automake-stable"
> ldesc: "This is Automake, a Makefile generator.  It was inspired
> by the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and
> to conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets.
> 
> Line 88 --->This package also includes the "aclocal" program.  aclocal is a
> category: Devel
> requires: ash automake-devel automake-stable
> 
> @ automake-devel
> ---------------
> 
> I have tried replacing the "aclocal" with 'aclocal', but I still receive the
> same error.
> 
> Maybe tonight when I have enough time, I'll download the source code for
> setup, and figure
> out what else is wrong.

Shoot.  I'll try to fix the setup.hint; it looks like this was my goof. 
Sorry, Corinna...

--Chuck

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