Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each time

[KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> Behalf Of Mark Harig
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:43 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying
> each time
> 
> Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:37:09 -0700 David Karr wrote:
> > Ok, so that shows that emacs-el.lst.gz was corrupted.  I deleted it,
> > then reran setup. I clicked "Exp", then "View", then scrolled down to
> > the three "emacs*" lines and set them all to "Reinstall" (the
> "Current"
> > column says "23.0.92-2") and clicked "Next".  It chugged for a bit,
> last
> > displaying "Uninstalling emacs-el", then reported "setup.exe has
> > encountered ...".  After dismissing the dialog, I looked at
> /etc/setup
> > again, and the corrupted "emacs-el.lst.gz" was there again.  I also
> > checked to see whether any other "*.lst.gz" files were corrupted, and
> > there were none.
> >
> 
> This message might be of some help to you:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-06/msg00563.html
> 
> In particular, you could try downloading:
> 
> http://rapidshare.com/files/98717404/setup.exe

If I understand this correctly, this modified version (over a year old now) only deals with not leaving the corrupted .gz file when setup fails.  It doesn't address the failure of setup.  It seems to me that the corrupted .gz file is just a symptom of another problem that may or not be addressed by this modified setup.exe.

I guess I'll try it anyway, as I'm sure not getting anywhere yet.