Alan W. Irwin writes: > I haven't even gotten as far as an initial install because > of this fork bug.
If you've never installed Cygwin then this is going to be a bit more difficult, but here it is anyway... You'll need a cygwin package that has the snapshot files built in. To do this, unpack the files from the current cygwin package into a temporary directory, then unpack the snapshot files into the same directory (which updates the directory with the filesfrom the snapshot), package the directory up again as a tar.bz2 file, note the md5sum and change the entry in setup.ini for the package to have the correct filename (if you've changed it) and checksum. You should then be able to use setup.exe just fine to install a new Cygwin instance. Here's a Makefile that will do the packaging, adjust the locations: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- .PHONY: all install clean force-clean clean-install snapshot install-snapshot snapshot-debuginfo install-snapshot-debuginfo CV ?= 1.7.19 CR ?= 1 CVR = $(CV)-$(CR) SD ?= 20130627 CYGMIR = /mnt/mirror/cygwin/release/cygwin CYGDEB = $(CYGMIR)/cygwin-debuginfo SNAPSHOT = $(PWD)/snapshot-$(SD) SNAPDEB = $(PWD)/snapshot-debuginfo-$(SD) SNAPMIR = /mnt/mirror/snapshot PATCH = /mnt/mirror/patch/release/cygwin PATCHDEB = $(PATCH)/cygwin-debuginfo all: snapshot snapshot-debuginfo install: clean-install clean install-snapshot install-snapshot-debuginfo force-clean clean force-clean: rm -fr $(SNAPSHOT) rm -fr $(SNAPDEB) clean-install: clean rm -f $(PATCH)/cygwin-$(CVR)s$(SD).tar.bz2 $(PATCHDEB)/cygwin-debuginfo-$(CVR)s$(SD).tar.bz2 snapshot: mkdir -p $(SNAPSHOT) tar -C $(SNAPSHOT) -xf $(CYGMIR)/cygwin-$(CVR).tar.bz2 tar -C $(SNAPSHOT) -xf /mnt/mirror/snapshot/cygwin-inst-$(SD).tar.bz2 install-snapshot: snapshot tar -C $(SNAPSHOT) -cf $(PATCH)/cygwin-$(CVR)s$(SD).tar.bz2 etc/ usr/ snapshot-debuginfo: mkdir -p $(SNAPDEB) tar -C $(SNAPDEB) -xf $(CYGDEB)/cygwin-debuginfo-$(CVR).tar.bz2 bunzip2 -c $(SNAPMIR)/cygwin1-$(SD).dbg.bz2 > $(SNAPDEB)/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cygwin1.dbg touch -r $(SNAPMIR)/cygwin1-$(SD).dbg.bz2 $(SNAPDEB)/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cygwin1.dbg install-snapshot-debuginfo: snapshot-debuginfo tar -C $(SNAPDEB) -cf $(PATCHDEB)/cygwin-debuginfo-$(CVR)s$(SD).tar.bz2 usr/ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple