I want to report that (in a certain scenario), I managed to install Cygwin (32 bit) successfully. All I needed was (some luck, see (C) below) and 2 fixes (see (C) and (D) below).
========== Scenario: (A) Download full cygwin (with obsolete packages hidded, and — if it asked [I do not remember] — agreeing on requiring obsolete stuff) in Summer 2015. (B) Install all but the Debug category (agreeing on required obsolete stuff) — this would not succeed (many postinstall scripts failed). I had no time to investigate this in 2015. A week ago: (C) I found out that a frequent understandable error in the logs was: D:/Programs/cygwin/bin/mkfontscale.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygbz2-1.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory so I manually requested that the install_tool installs the libbz2_1 package. While doing this, I did not notice that install_tool was in "Cur" state (as opposed to "Keep"), so it pulled in several dozens of new versions packages too. It so happened that this WAS a correct combination to fix problems with cygwin-of-Summer-2015. (But by itself, current state of cygwin does not install; see below!!!) (D) Everything would install fine now (hurray!!!) except: x3270.sh exit code 1 opendir: No such file or directory Fix: mkdir D:\Programs\cygwin\usr\share\fonts\encodings and rerun install_tool. Result: everything installs fine! Conclusion: (1) at least in 2015, many packages requiring libbz2_1 were not marked as such. (this may have been already changed; the above scenario gives no info about this); (2) postinstall/x3270.sh needs an extra line, mkdir'ing the ENCODINGS directory. Thanks, Ilya P.S. Unfortunately, no luck with upgrading to the current state of cygwin: install does not succeed any more (I would report this separately). -- 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