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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:25:47PM +0000, Chris Taylor wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:07:46PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On 10 February 2006 17:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:45:44AM -0800, JefV wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I re-installed cygwin and it seems to be working now.  Strange.
>>>>>
>>>>>So, for those who keep track of such things, that's:
>>>>>
>>>>>One (1) reinstall to fix problems running "rm" under "make".
>>>>
>>>>Well, after all, it is only a /minor/ problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>Right.  I'm just thinking that we can probably add a "problem solving"
>>>section to setup.exe which did the reinstallation automatically.
>>>
>>>Something along the lines of a "click here if you are having problems with
>>>a current installation" which would bring you to a screen that said:
>>>
>>> Type of problem:
>>>
>>>     [.] "rm: command not found" under make
>>>     [ ] cron can't access remote shares
>>>     [ ] ssh not working (followed all instructions at pigtale.net)
>>>     [ ] ssh not working (followed all instructions at 
>>>     networksimpcity.net)
>>>     [ ] screen flashes when clicking on cygwin icon
>>>      .
>>>      .
>>>      .
>>>
>>>Then setup.exe could know that, e.g., it takes one reinstall to fix the
>>>"rm" problem, four reinstalls to fix the pigtale.net ssh problem, and
>>>nine reinstalls to fix the networksimpcity.net ssh problem.
>>>
>>>This will take additional time, of course, but the eventual result would
>>>be problem-free cygwin installations.
>>
>>Actually, there could be a good idea in amongst that ;)
>>
>>Give setup the ability to run cygcheck, and have a problem-report 
>>submission section built into it.
>>Give them email address and description fields, and it could send the 
>>mail for them, thus eliminating the lack of a cygcheck (to an extent 
>>anyway, not everyone would follow this, of course)..
>>
>>I know, I know, PTC... If I could, I would.
> 
> 
> The problem with that suggestion is that if cygcheck didn't run (typically
> a 2 reinstall problem) then you could get into some kind of weird loop.
> 
> Add the requirement for checking how to send email to the mix and it might
> cause that OS wrapping problem that I reported earlier.  This could really
> screw up a person's computer.
> 
> cgf
> 

Ah, but it would have added bonus of stopping them from bitching at 
everyone on this list - they wouldn't be able to ;)

Maybe it could force the OS wrapping to *BSD or Linux? :P


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