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).
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