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RE: cygintl-8.dll was not found


Sorry for the accidental post a moment ago... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Korn
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:24
> Subject: Re: cygintl-8.dll was not found
> 
> On 05/04/2010 13:43, wefwef wefwef wrote:
> 
> > No, I was advised to do this to get round a nasty bug in 
> the installer.
> 
>   No, you were advised to do this to work around the fully 
> correct behaviour of the installer in that it pays attention 
> to your existing installation when you run it, exactly like 
> it is supposed to.  Your persistent misdescription of "not 
> behaving how I hoped it would despite the behaviour I hoped 
> for not being documented anywhere" as a "bug" is egregious.
> 
> > I suppose in your world, it's impossible that the installer 
> has bugs, 
> > or usability problems as it quite clearly does.
> 
>   You have asserted this, but failed to show it so far.
> 
> > So based on the fact that it worked ok  for you, then the installer 
> > has no problems at all, and any problems anyone has with it is the 
> > fault of the user. Wow, that's a very simplistic view of 
> software you 
> > have.
> 
>   It's pretty deterministic.  If it behaves differently for 
> you as it does for me, that's because there is something 
> different either in the procedures we followed or in the 
> environment on the machines that we are following those 
> procedures on.  This is why absolutely fully-detailed 
> step-by-step descriptions are essential.

Camtasia has a 30 day trial, use it and send the flash video and I will watch
it.

> 
> > Dave, I gave you the full description,
> 
>   Let me enumerate the points you missed then:
> 
> > This is what I did:
> > renamed my current cygwin install directory to fool setup.exe into 
> > thinking it was a new installation ran setup, selected download 
> > without installing, from ftp.fit.vutbr.cz I left everything on 
> > default, and selected additionally vim, openssh, 7z, ping 
> and rsync, 
> > by changing to the full view, and searching for the packages The 
> > download came to 86.4 MB (90,671,910 bytes)
> 
> 1.  Didn't mention what you did with the package directory.  
> You've told me that now, but you still haven't told me when 
> you deleted it in relation to that sequence of operations 
> described above.
> 
> 2.  Didn't mention any of the directory names you were using 
> or the me only/all users settings.
> 
> > I then zipped up the download, and copied it over to the computer I 
> > wanted to install it on.
> > unzipped, ran setup on the remote pc, changed from default 
> to install 
> > in the top left to install everything, and then installed.
> > It all looked fine, when I clicked on the cygwin icon on 
> the desktop, 
> > I got the libintl8 error.
> 
> 3.  Didn't explain which directory you zipped up, or what the 
> directory structure was on the machine you transferred it to.
> 4.  Didn't mention any of the directory names you chose in setup.exe.
> 5.  Didn't mention selecting "install from local package 
> directory" or other install mode.
> 6.  Didn't mention the all-users/me-only setting.
> 
> > After the missing libintl8 error, I went through exactly the same 
> > process again, and this time it downloaded only 26.6 MB (27,915,820 
> > bytes). When I copied that over to the remote pc and tried 
> to install, 
> > the installer program displays the 'message no packages 
> found' in the 
> > top left.
> 
> 7.  No details of how or whether you uninstalled the earlier 
> attempt and/or the local package directory it left and/or 
> wiped or reinstalled the whole PC.
> 
> > Dave, I don't need your kind of help thanks.
> 
>   Actually, someone who can be bothered to take a couple of 
> hours of their own time to set up some virtual machines, 
> reproduce the technique you're attempting and verify that it 
> can be done, then try and figure out what the differences are 
> between what he did and what you did, is exactly the kind of 
> help you need.

Thank you.

> 
>   Now, let's have a look at the logs: we'll need 
> /var/log/setup.log and /var/log/setup.log.full files from the 
> destination machine, please, and on the source machine they 
> should be in whereever you left the local package directory.  
> It may still be possible to reconstruct what went wrong.
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> 


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