cygwin-doc post install script failures

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-12-15 01:43, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
> Not a recent bug but annoying anyway
> 
> It seems the post-install script is not considering that the
> installation can be in a disk different from C: , properly
> in this case D:

The post-install script does not care as mkshortcut uses POSIX paths.
Could you please check your paths with:

	$ which -a mkshortcut
	/usr/bin/mkshortcut
	$ cygcheck mkshortcut
	Found: C:\...\cygwin64\bin\mkshortcut.exe
	C:\...\cygwin64\bin\mkshortcut.exe
	  C:\...\cygwin64\bin\cygwin1.dll
	    C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll
	      C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll
	      C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
	  C:\...\cygwin64\bin\cygpopt-0.dll
	    C:\...\cygwin64\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
	    C:\...\cygwin64\bin\cygintl-8.dll
	  C:\Windows\system32\ole32.dll
	    C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll
	    C:\Windows\system32\GDI32.dll
	      C:\Windows\system32\win32u.dll
	    C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll
	    C:\Windows\system32\combase.dll
	      C:\Windows\system32\bcryptPrimitives.dll
	  C:\Windows\system32\SHELL32.dll
	$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/mkshortcut
	cygutils-1.4.16-2
	$ cygcheck -c cygutils
	Cygwin Package Information
	Package              Version        Status
	cygutils             1.4.16-2       OK
	
> 2020/12/15 08:40:13 running: d:\cygwin32\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh"
> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start 
> Menu/Programs/D:/cygwin32/Cygwin (32-bit)/User Guide (PDF).lnk" failed; does the 
> target directory exist?
> mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start 
> Menu/Programs/D:/cygwin32/Cygwin (32-bit)/User Guide (HTML).lnk" failed; does 
> the target directory exist?

Please try:

	$ sh --version
	GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)
	...

Could you please try rerunning the p-i script under sh -vx and post the output, 
as I can not see any way to rearrange the inputs and outputs to get that result, 
unless read or mkshortcut are damaged!

> $ ls "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/" | grep Cygwin
> Cygwin
> Cygwin (32-bit)

$ ll "$(cygpath -A -P -U)"/Cygwin*

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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