On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: > On 2006-10-04 11:55, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: > > > > > > All this pain, just because some one did not include > > > > "--InstallAll" option to setup.exe?? > > > > > > > > As the saying goes, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. Of course, you > > > > can always look to see if any of your issues with 'setup.exe' are > > > > addressed by a snapshot <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>. > > > > > > > Thanks Lary. > > > When I ran the latest "setup-2.551.exe --help" I got no output at all. > > > > Check the log file. > > Igor > > And where that log is supposed to be? Surely not /var/log/setup.log > because cygwin is not yet installed.
It's setup.log in the directory you ran setup from. > Moreover, why should the output of "setup-2.551.exe --help" be sent to > any log file? Read the cygwin-apps archives -- there's a long discussion of that exact issue. In a word, it's because setup cannot reliably write to the console without other adverse effects. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/