install problems under XP: setup.exe goes into an endless loop while looking for setup.ini

[Frank Seelisch]

I am having install problems under XP: Setup.exe seems to go into an 
endless loop while looking for setup.ini.

Here's what happened: We've bundled a new major release of Singular; 
it's our release 3-1-0. (The current Singular packages in cygwin are 
version 3-0-4.) Some two weeks ago I made a test and successfully built 
a Windows install executable using cygwin setup.exe, our Singular 
sources, and PackageForTheWeb. (We always do that after each Singular 
release, in order to provide our maths colleagues with a 
one-file-install version for Singular; you can find the working file at
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~seelisch/Singular-3-1-0-beta-Small.exe)

Now, as our Singular release 3-1-0 is complete, I wanted to repeat this 
same build procedure. For that, I downloaded your latest setup.exe. And 
again, I managed to create a one-file-install-exe
(http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~seelisch/Singular-3-1-0-Small.exe) but 
when I now try to install it on my test PC, the setup goes into an 
endless loop. It looks like this:
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~seelisch/InstallLoop.JPG
(The progress bar goes from 0% to 100% and then starts all over again 
with 0%; and so on.)

Setup.log's are here:
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~seelisch/setup.log and
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~seelisch/setup.log.full.

The content of C:\cygwin\etc\setup\last-cache is
C:\DOCUME~1\Frank\LOCALS~1\Temp\pft4.tmp

Can you please give me advice what's going wrong with my test 
installation. (The test PC I use is always cleaned up with respect to 
cygwin, that is, there is no cygwin installation on it and all registry 
entries, and path variable entries pointing to cygwin have been removed.)

Best regards,
Frank

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Frank Seelisch - Researcher, Ph.D.
Working Group Algebra, Geometry and Computer Algebra
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwagag/de/
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Mathematics Dept., P.O.Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern
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