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Re: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
- From: John Marshall <johnm at falch dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:32:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
- Organization: Falch.net
- References: <01C207B8.B09002C0.carl_sorensen@byu.edu>
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:02:12AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> I am trying to install prc-tools on my WinXP machine, using cygwin setup
> 2.218.2.9.
[...]
> (null) line 1: parse error, unexpected $undefined.
> (null) line 1: unrecognized line in setup.ini headers (do you have the
> latest setup?)
Yes. This was happening intermittently while I was updating our little
setup.ini, and would go away with random changes to the file, or even if
I just saved it again. Or something. I couldn't figure out what was
going on. I thought the problem had gone away, but now that it's gone
live, I've been getting a few reports that it's failing for some people.
Intermittently. (Uninitialised variable in the parser maybe?) The
setup.ini in question is at
http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini
in case any experts can see what dumb mistake I've made. I've only got
HEAD setup.exe sources, I haven't yet pulled down the current branch
ones to try to figure out what the error messages are trying to tell me.
I guess I should.
Incidentally, contrary to the example at the end of
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html, my trial and error
found that the quotation marks in sdesc were not optional. If so, maybe
the example needs updating.
John