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RE: What to do when setup fails?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>
- Cc: "'Max Bowsher'" <maxb at ukf dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:10:04 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: What to do when setup fails?
- References: <NUTMEGUf2d9zGeMiDzq0000061c@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> From mount.cc:
> [snip]
> fatal ("mount");
>
> Luke, if setup is failing to create that key, you must be trying to
> install for all users while running as a user with inadequate rights,
> mustn't you? The attached patch would tell you what the actual error
> code was, if you felt like rebuilding setup.
Quoting the patch:
- fatal ("mount");
+ {
+ char errbuffer[40];
+ _snprintf (errbuffer, 40, "mount %d", GetLastError ());
+ fatal (errbuffer);
+ }
Umm, isn't this exactly what fatal() does already?
Quoting dialog.cc:
void
fatal (const char *msg)
{
DWORD e = GetLastError ();
char *buf;
FormatMessage (FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM,
0, e, 0, (CHAR *) & buf, 0, 0);
MessageBox (0, buf, msg, 0);
LogSingleton::GetInstance().exit (1);
// Keep gcc happy - some sort of bug!
exit (1);
}
Igor
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