Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:56:37 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"
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On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:54:52PM +0400, Andry wrote:
>>On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 01:31:54AM +0400, Andry wrote: So, in other
>>words, you redescribing the problem that has already been identified.
>>You just wanted to spend a paragraph getting your kick in.
>I describing a set of problems.
>
>>And, unless the packages are doing something odd like moving their info
>>files around in postinstall scripts, it shouldn't matter when
>>_update_info_dir is run.
>
>It already should, because it at least should run after "bash" or "ash"
>component.

This only matters if there is no /bin/sh set up by postinstall, which is
the bug that was uncovered by this thread and is a bug which is being
addressed.

>>You mentioned _update_info_dir.  If _update_info_dir is installed then
>>install-info.exe is also installed.  install-info *does* need to be
>>installed to correctly set up the directory file for use by info.
>I mentioned install-info, i didn't said anything about _update_info_dir
>does install intall-info.

Installing _update_info_dir will cause install-info.exe to also be
installed since it is a dependency and post install scripts are run
after all packages are extracted.

>I told about postinstall scripts at all, they uses install-info without
>checking it on presence

The postinstal scripts can rely on its existence if they have .info
files.  That is precisely why _update_info_dir was invented.

>half scripts just run it like "intall-info" instead of
>"/usr/bin/install-info", because PATH IMHO can be unupdated yet for
>searchpaths.  So i additionally fix postinstall scripts to fit my
>needs.

I'm sure all of the scripts assume the existence of a sane path.  I
believe that bash defaults to a useful path if there is none set.  But
if setup.exe isn't setting up a basic PATH it probably should do that.

cgf

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