New version of setup - prerelease available

Thu May 2 04:41:00 GMT 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Dobkin [mailto:Alan@ADobkin.Net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:54 AM

> When I run this new version (2.216) and select "Install from 
> Local Directory", as soon as setup gets to the "Progress" 
> window (before 
> listing any available packages), the CPU jumps up over 50% while 
> the memory for that process grows to about 150 MB. Eventually, 
> after about a minute or so, the setup window/process disappears.

Hmm, sounds suspect.

> I haven't had any problems with the current release or previous 
> releases of setup.exe, and this new version seems to work when I 
> select "Install from Internet". My local directory is a mirror 
> of mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin, which I have been using 

Ah. It's strange that the usage is jumping, as the MD5 sums are only
calculated for files that have an MD5 sum in setup.ini/
> for several months and is updated every night. I am running W2K, 
> and I have confirmed this behavior on two systems so far, one is 
> W2K Professional (workstation) and one is W2K Server.
>> Let me know if you need me to provide any more information....

Yes, can you build setup from the -src tarball, and run it under gdb? If
it crashes then, you can type\
'bt full'
and send me or the list the output.
Cheers,
Rob
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