RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
In order to make this work, I had to modify the file c:\cygwin\etc\setup\last-mirror and remove the final '/'. Then it worked fine for me. Thanks all for the help. Carl On Thursday, May 30, 2002 6:03 PM, Robert Collins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hmm, strange. I just tried this myself, and got the same result (I used direct connection, rather than IE settings). Yet, wget gets the file fine. Hmm, ah yes. DON'T put the last '/' in. Works fine for me now. Rob -Original Message- From: Carl Sorensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 31 May 2002 9:57 AM To: 'Robert Collins' Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror Rob, I entered the trailing / when I added the custom URL. However, when the error window popped up, it did not have the trailing /. More information: When running Setup.exe 2.218.2.9, if I select the option Use IE5 Settings, I get the Unable to get setup.ini message, rather than the Parse error message. On Thursday, May 30, 2002 5:28 PM, Robert Collins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: You need a trailing / on the custom URL. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Carl Sorensen Sent: Friday, 31 May 2002 9:00 AM To: 'Ton van Overbeek'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror Ton wrote: One thing Carl could try is to use the latest setup snapshot on http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/. The latest one right now is setup-2.249.exe. See if the problem is still there on XP with that version. I followed this advice The result: An error window titled Cygwin Setup gives the message Unable to get setup.ini from http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install;. I pointed my browser at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini and successfully downloaded a copy of the setup.ini file. Two questions: (1) is there a way to make setup.exe use the setup.ini from my drive, rather than getting a copy from the prc-tools site? (2) Is there something different about the way setup processes http:// mirror sites instead of ftp:// mirror sites? Carl
Re: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:02:12AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: I am trying to install prc-tools on my WinXP machine, using cygwin setup 2.218.2.9. [...] (null) line 1: parse error, unexpected $undefined. (null) line 1: unrecognized line in setup.ini headers (do you have the latest setup?) Yes. This was happening intermittently while I was updating our little setup.ini, and would go away with random changes to the file, or even if I just saved it again. Or something. I couldn't figure out what was going on. I thought the problem had gone away, but now that it's gone live, I've been getting a few reports that it's failing for some people. Intermittently. (Uninitialised variable in the parser maybe?) The setup.ini in question is at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini in case any experts can see what dumb mistake I've made. I've only got HEAD setup.exe sources, I haven't yet pulled down the current branch ones to try to figure out what the error messages are trying to tell me. I guess I should. Incidentally, contrary to the example at the end of http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html, my trial and error found that the quotation marks in sdesc were not optional. If so, maybe the example needs updating. John
Re: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:32:19PM +0200, Ton van Overbeek wrote: The error messages which Carl saw come from iniparse.cc, which in turn is produced from the parser definition in iniparse.y. From the definitions in iniparse.y it is clear that the sdesc and ldesc arguments have to be put in quotes in order to be recognized as a single token. So, as John said, the example at the bottom of the page (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html) is wrong and should be corrected. (Rob, are you listening ?) What specific example are you looking at? % grep sdesc setup.html sdesc: isome text/i pttsdesc/tt and ttldesc/tt are both mandatory fields for the ttsdesc/tt field is required for correct operation of setup.exe. pttsdesc/tt is a one line description of the package. This is the ttsdesc: boffo: A whackamole simulation in ASCII art/tt ttsdesc: A whackamole simulation in ASCII art/tt sdesc:A whackamole simulation in ASCII art ttsdesc: A whackamole simulation in ASCII art/ttbr ttsdesc: Runtime library for a whackamole simulation in ASCII art/ttbr They all seem to have quotes to me. cgf
RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
Ton wrote: One thing Carl could try is to use the latest setup snapshot on http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/. The latest one right now is setup-2.249.exe. See if the problem is still there on XP with that version. I followed this advice The result: An error window titled Cygwin Setup gives the message Unable to get setup.ini from http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install;. I pointed my browser at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini and successfully downloaded a copy of the setup.ini file. Two questions: (1) is there a way to make setup.exe use the setup.ini from my drive, rather than getting a copy from the prc-tools site? (2) Is there something different about the way setup processes http:// mirror sites instead of ftp:// mirror sites? Carl
RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
You need a trailing / on the custom URL. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Carl Sorensen Sent: Friday, 31 May 2002 9:00 AM To: 'Ton van Overbeek'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror Ton wrote: One thing Carl could try is to use the latest setup snapshot on http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/. The latest one right now is setup-2.249.exe. See if the problem is still there on XP with that version. I followed this advice The result: An error window titled Cygwin Setup gives the message Unable to get setup.ini from http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install;. I pointed my browser at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini and successfully downloaded a copy of the setup.ini file. Two questions: (1) is there a way to make setup.exe use the setup.ini from my drive, rather than getting a copy from the prc-tools site? (2) Is there something different about the way setup processes http:// mirror sites instead of ftp:// mirror sites? Carl
RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
Thanks, I've corrected this. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Marshall Sent: Friday, 31 May 2002 4:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:09:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: What specific example are you looking at? setup-timestamp: 967844652 @ cygwin sdesc: Cygwin Runtime ldesc: A Posix runtime emulator for Windows platforms version: 1.1.4 [...] at the bottom of http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html (which is a different page from http://cygwin.com/setup.html) John
RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
Rob, I entered the trailing / when I added the custom URL. However, when the error window popped up, it did not have the trailing /. More information: When running Setup.exe 2.218.2.9, if I select the option Use IE5 Settings, I get the Unable to get setup.ini message, rather than the Parse error message. On Thursday, May 30, 2002 5:28 PM, Robert Collins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: You need a trailing / on the custom URL. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Carl Sorensen Sent: Friday, 31 May 2002 9:00 AM To: 'Ton van Overbeek'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror Ton wrote: One thing Carl could try is to use the latest setup snapshot on http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/. The latest one right now is setup-2.249.exe. See if the problem is still there on XP with that version. I followed this advice The result: An error window titled Cygwin Setup gives the message Unable to get setup.ini from http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install;. I pointed my browser at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini and successfully downloaded a copy of the setup.ini file. Two questions: (1) is there a way to make setup.exe use the setup.ini from my drive, rather than getting a copy from the prc-tools site? (2) Is there something different about the way setup processes http:// mirror sites instead of ftp:// mirror sites? Carl
RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
Hmm, strange. I just tried this myself, and got the same result (I used direct connection, rather than IE settings). Yet, wget gets the file fine. Hmm, ah yes. DON'T put the last '/' in. Works fine for me now. Rob -Original Message- From: Carl Sorensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 31 May 2002 9:57 AM To: 'Robert Collins' Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror Rob, I entered the trailing / when I added the custom URL. However, when the error window popped up, it did not have the trailing /. More information: When running Setup.exe 2.218.2.9, if I select the option Use IE5 Settings, I get the Unable to get setup.ini message, rather than the Parse error message. On Thursday, May 30, 2002 5:28 PM, Robert Collins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: You need a trailing / on the custom URL. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Carl Sorensen Sent: Friday, 31 May 2002 9:00 AM To: 'Ton van Overbeek'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror Ton wrote: One thing Carl could try is to use the latest setup snapshot on http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/. The latest one right now is setup-2.249.exe. See if the problem is still there on XP with that version. I followed this advice The result: An error window titled Cygwin Setup gives the message Unable to get setup.ini from http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install;. I pointed my browser at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini and successfully downloaded a copy of the setup.ini file. Two questions: (1) is there a way to make setup.exe use the setup.ini from my drive, rather than getting a copy from the prc-tools site? (2) Is there something different about the way setup processes http:// mirror sites instead of ftp:// mirror sites? Carl
