Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

2022-09-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Brian Cowan! Please bottom post in this list. And trim unnecessary quoting. > Well, is it possible to use 7zip? It seems like you can do something like > it in: > https://superuser.com/questions/42788/is-it-possible-to-execute-a-file-after-extraction-from-a-7-zip-self-extracting-a > N

RE: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

2022-08-31 Thread Brian Cowan via Cygwin
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Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

2022-08-28 Thread Jon Turney
On 25/08/2022 19:14, Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote: And this was exactly it. I downloaded the latest UPX version, and it crashed on startup. I downloaded the Linux version on another host, copied the setup program to that host and extracted it there. NOW I can update Cygwin... I wonder if UPX co

RE: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

2022-08-25 Thread Brian Cowan via Cygwin
brian.co...@hcl.com -Original Message- From: Jon Turney Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2022 1:12 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Brian Cowan Subject: Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the

Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

2022-08-25 Thread Jon Turney
On 25/08/2022 17:52, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 08:46:10PM +, Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote: >>Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup? Not as such. And if it did, the behaviour when the fails should be to say those checks have failed,

Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

2022-08-25 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 08:46:10PM +, Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote: > Why would I ask that question? Because I have a host running a > hodgepodge of company-mandated security software, and -- only on that > host -- the Cygwin setup tool crashes... > > Oddities: > 1. The crash generates 3 dump

Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

2022-08-24 Thread Brian Cowan via Cygwin
Why would I ask that question? Because I have a host running a hodgepodge of company-mandated security software, and -- only on that host -- the Cygwin setup tool crashes... Oddities: 1. The crash generates 3 dump files when I use procdump, which is odd since I "normally" only get 2 identical d