Annoying error messages from setup

[Mark Geisert]

Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
> For some time (several months), the setup program always finishes with the
> following message:
>
>> Package: _/cygwin-doc
>>     cygwin-doc.sh exit code 3
>> Package: z/Perpetual
>>     zp_texlive_finish.dash exit code 20
>
> Looking into setup.log.full, I find:
>
>> 2019/03/06 22:39:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
>> "/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh"
>> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start
>> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/User Guide (PDF).lnk" failed; does the target
>> directory exist?
>> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start
>> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/User Guide (HTML).lnk" failed; does the target
>> directory exist?
>> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start
>> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/API (PDF).lnk" failed; does the target directory exist?
>> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start
>> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/API (HTML).lnk" failed; does the target directory exist?
>> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start
>> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/Home Page.lnk" failed; does the target directory exist?
>> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start
>> Menu/Programs/C:/cygwin/FAQ.lnk" failed; does the target directory exist?
>> 2019/03/06 22:39:57 abnormal exit: exit code=3
>
> Where do the "/C:" parts in the middle of the link names come from?
> Investigating, I find that mkshortcut is being called like this:
>
>> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/User Guide (PDF)" -d "Cygwin User Guide
>> PDF" -- /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/cygwin-ug-net.pdf
>> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/User Guide (HTML)" -d "Cygwin User Guide
>> HTML" -- /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/html/cygwin-ug-net/index.html
>> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/API (PDF)" -d "Cygwin API Reference PDF"
>> -- /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/cygwin-api.pdf
>> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/API (HTML)" -d "Cygwin API Reference
>> HTML" -- /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/html/cygwin-api/index.html
>> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/Home Page" -d "Cygwin Home Page Link" -a
>> https://cygwin.com/index.html -- /usr/bin/cygstart
>> /usr/bin/mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/FAQ" -d "Cygwin Frequently Asked
>> Questions Link" -a https://cygwin.com/faq.html -- /usr/bin/cygstart
>
> There appears to be a bug in mkshortcut.
> Could this be somehow related to my enabling native symbolic links?
> (Not sure if this error began before I did that.)
> I don't know where to find the source for mkshortcut, and not sure if somebody else
> knows this program and can look into it. Should I report this somewhere?

Consider it reported :-O.  'cygcheck -p mkshortcut' shows mkshortcut is part of 
the cygutils package.  I'm the maintainer.  You aren't using zsh as your shell, 
are you?  I ask because zsh apparently has its own mkshortcut.  Let me 
experiment a little bit and try to reproduce your first issue.

Your second issue is something totally separate and I can't help with it.

..mark


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