> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn
> Sent: 24 September 2004 17:32
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn
> > Sent: 24 September 2004 17:11
>
> > I just decided to update my cygwin install for the first
> > time in a while.
> >
> > During the uninstalling old stuff stage, all the uninstall
> > scripts started
> > failing with "Can't find cygwin1.dll".
> >
> > Sure enough, that's because setup.exe had indeed deleted
> > c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll.
>
> So I manually copied it back and am trying again.
>
> This time it fails at "Uninstalling x-start-menu-icons"
> because seq.exe
> can't find cygiconv-2.dll. I'm fairly sure I used to have
> that, so setup
> must have deleted it as well.
And of course there's no easy way to restore that one once it's gone,
because I can't run tar without cygiconv-2.dll, so I can't get it back from
my setup directory. And even if I did have a way of untar-ing it, there's
still no way I could get it, because setup has helpfully deleted bzip2 for
me.
Is there _anything_ in setup that is supposed to make sure it doesn't
delete executable files that it vitally needs to successfully complete its
operations?
cheers,
DaveK
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