Error running setup-x86_64.exe: syntax error in setup.zst

[Jon Turney]

On 07/04/2023 02:44, Keith Thompson via Cygwin wrote:
> Running setup-x86_64.exe on a Windows 10 laptop, I get this error message:
> 
> https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst line
> 30182: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting COMMA or NL
> https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst line
> 30182: unrecognized line 30183 (do you have the latest setup?)
> https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst line
> 30203: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting COMMA or NL
> https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst line
> 30203: unrecognized line 30204 (do you have the latest setup?)
> 
> (I can't copy the text from the message box so I retyped it.)

Protip: Ctrl-C should work on a message box.

> I re-downloaded setup-x86_64.exec, and it's identical to the one on my laptop.
> 
> I'm using the mirrors.kernel.org mirror.
> The setup.zst from mirrors.dotsrc.org is identical.
> I decompressed setup.zst and I do see something suspicious on the
> indicated lines.
> 
> Here's line 30182:
> 
> build-depends: \, bison, cygport, dblatex, docbook2X, flex,
> gettext-devel, libGLU-devel, libcairo-devel, libcanberra-gtk-devel,
> libcurl-devel, libfreetype-devel, libglib2.0-devel, libgmp-devel,
> libgtk2.0-devel, libgtkglext1.0-devel, libpango1.0-devel,
> libpng-devel, libreadline-devel, libsqlite3-devel, libxslt,
> python3-devel, texinfo
> 
> Line 30203 is similar. I don't see a lone backslash anywhere else in the file.

Yeah, this is wrong.

I need to investigate further why the mechanisms which should have 
caught this didn't.

> The setup.zst from mirrors.sonic.net does *not* have problematic
> build-depends lines.
> (Switching to a different mirror might be a workaround, but I haven't
> tried it yet.)
> 
> The "bad" setup.zst has "setup-timestamp: 1680813730" (Thu 2023-04-06
> 20:42:10 UTC).
> The "good" setup.zst has "setup-timestamp: 1680795371" (Thu 2023-04-06
> 15:36:11 UTC).
> The bad one is about 5 hours newer than the good one.
> I'm concerned that the bad setup.zst might propagate to other mirrors.
This is fixed as of setup-timestamp: 1680860048

Thanks very much for reporting this.

Apologies for the inconvenience.