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Subject: Re: Can't use install-path longer than 15 chars after 2.875 update
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:11:59 -0600
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On 2016-08-31 12:59, Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE) wrote:
>> On Aug 31 20:22, Jacek Sowiński wrote:
>>> After updating to setup-x86_64.exe version 2.875 I can't use
>>> install paths longer than 15 chars and error is throwed:
>>>> The install directory must be absolute, with both a drive
>>>> letter and leading slash, like C:\Cygwin
>> So what was your actual install path? FYI, I just used setup-2.875
>> to installed Cygwin into C:\cygwin-test-blubber- test\test\test and
>> it just worked.
> I can confirm that C:\apps\Cygwin64 does NOT work but C:\apps\Cygwin6
> does.  I also get the error with
> C:\cygwin-test-blubber-test\test\test.

No problems updating cygwin today with setup-x86_64.exe 2.875:
$ uname -srvmo
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) 2016-08-31 14:32 x86_64 Cygwin
$ head -n 2 /etc/setup/setup.rc
last-cache
         C:/usr/local/cygwin64/var/cache/setup/packages
Brian AT BWInglisD ~ 2013 $ tail -n 8 /etc/setup/setup.rc
last-mirror
         ftp://ftp.muug.ca/mirror/cygwin/
net-method
         Direct
last-action
         Download,Install
chooser_window_settings
         44,0,1,4294967295,4294967295,4294967295,4294967295,101,401,1090,1181
$
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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