On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:39:59AM -0400, Mark Harig wrote:
>When I ran setup-1.7.exe with the default set of packages
>selected, the following error message was displayed:
>
>running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c
>/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
>abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819
>
>'base-files-profile.sh' contains the following line:
>
>/bin/mkdir -p `dirname ${fDest}`
>
>'dirname' is /usr/bin/dirname. Does setup-1.7.exe set
>PATH before running 'base-files-profile.sh'? If not,
>then this would account for the error.
>
>It is possible to rewrite the command without using
>'dirname':
>
>/bin/mkdir -p ${fDest%/*}
>
>$ cygcheck -f /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
>base-files-3.8-3
>
>$ cygcheck -c base-files-3.8
>Cygwin Package Information
>Package Version Status
>base-files 3.8-3 OK
It does set the path. This is one of those cases where we really do
need to see the cygcheck output:
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