New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 15 13:28:00 GMT 2008


On Aug 15 07:16, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Corinna Vinschen on 8/15/2008 7:13 AM:
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> >> So, how can we make sure that the 000-cygwin-post-install.sh script
> >> from the base-cygwin package runs as the first script?  Does it work
> >> to make bash depend on base-cygwin?
> > 
> > Eric?  Is the latter feasible?  I created the 000-cygwin-post-install.sh
> > in a way so that it only requires bash itself, not any coreutils tool.
> 
> I don't know setup.exe well enough to say if that extra dependency will
> help, but a) it can't hurt, and b) it's worth a shot.  I've tweaked the
> setup.hint in release-2 accordingly.

Cool, thanks!  I'll try a fresh reinstall soon.

What I still don't get is that, in my local install, the update-info-dir,
coreutils, and terminfo postinstall scripts ran before the bash postinstall
script, even though all of them list bash as requirement.  Any idea?


Corinna

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