On 2 Sep, Robert Collins wrote: > > I'd still be interested to know what setup is doing at that point. It > > might give us a clue as to why setup's performance varies across such a > > wide range. (If Cygwin was already installed, could we strace > > setup.exe?) > > no - it's not a cygwin app.
That's what I thought. Fair enough. > > Has some change to setup in a recent snapshot targeted the problem? > > Yes, 6 months ago IIRC. Hmm. We're using a nightly mirrored copy, but looking at the file's properties, I see it dates from April 7th, 2003. So grabbing the snapshot might be a good idea! I'm surprised that the latest version on the mirror site is almost 5 months old. http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cygwin/ .... setup.exe 07-Apr-2003 23:20 253k setup.exe.old 09-Mar-2003 11:08 180k setup.ini 30-Aug-2003 22:50 213k When was the last version of setup.exe released? luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
