On 01/06/2026 17:49, Soren via Cygwin wrote:
Previously, many days ago, we had the following exchange:
[Soren]
I am puzzled as to how I can ask setup-x86_64.exe to install multiple
packages in a single run.
I've tried this: using multiple -P <arg> flags, but it seems that only
the
first package thus specified is noticed by setup.
Hmm... the code does claim to handle multiple -P options.
I've thought of trying these:
-P 'package1,package2,package3,[...]'
[Marco]
this works for me, without need of ' in my bat file
[...]>
Running setup from the commandline still isn't providing me with obedience
to the -P option. I just tried (running from a bash shell in minTty):
cygstart C:/ix/cygwin/setup-x86_64 -vdnN -P perl-Alien-Build
perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML perl-CPAN-Reporter
Sorry to hear this is giving you trouble.
I know that the parsing for this option is maybe a bit janky and could
use some improvement, but it can be made to work.
Firstly: -P is followed by a single string, so you should use the syntax
Marco confirmed as working, i.e. package names separated by only a comma.
If you can point out where our documentation suggests space-separated
names can work, I'll get that fixed.
(There's obviously some bug adding to the confusion here as the
non-options 'perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML' and 'perl-CPAN-Reporter' are being
silently ignored by setup.)
None of the named packages appeared in setup. Now, I did what I could
think of to check whether setup behavior was happening because the
pkgs were already installed.
perl-Alien-Build was already installed, so was perl-CPAN-Reporter.
perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML was *not* installed on the system already.
When I tried placing just perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML as the only argument, in
setup it didn't appear. I seem to be going backwards rather than
making forward progress.
I surely would be appreciative if anyone could help me with how to run
setup from the commandline.
$ ./setup-x86_64 -vdnN -P
perl-Alien-Build,perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML,perl-CPAN-Reporter
checking /var/log/setup.log.full afterwards (or drop cygstart and add -B
so you can see the output of setup)
[...]
package: perl-Alien-Build version:
package: perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML version:
package: perl-CPAN-Reporter version:
Added manual package perl-Alien-Build
Added manual package perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML
Added manual package perl-CPAN-Reporter
[...]
$ ./setup-x86_64 -vdnN -P perl-Alien-Build -P perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML -P
perl-CPAN-Reporter
Likewise, also seems to add the requested packages.
Oh, and I STILL cannot Shift-Ins to paste into minTTY.
One email thread, one issue, please.
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