What to do when setup fails?

Wed Nov 10 16:10:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年11月10日, 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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