Re: setup bug...

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> In setup-1.7, on the "Select Local Package Directory" page, it says:
> 
> Select a directory where you want Setup to store the installation files
> it downloads. The directory will be created if it does not already
> exist.
> 
> So, I type in a directory name:
> 
> C:\TEMP\cygwin17
> 
> C:\TEMP exists, but cygwin17 does not. I get the following error popup:
> 
> Could not change dir to C:\TEMP\cywin17: The system cannot find the file
> specified. [00000001]
> Abort Retry Ignore.
> 
> 
> If I manually create the cygwin17 directory (and click Retry),
> everything proceeds normally.
> 
> This seems to be a new error, because this used to work. I won't have
> much time to track this down myself for a couple of weeks, so I figured
> I should document it here...

  I have a patch for this!

    cheers,
      DaveK