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On 23/07/2010 20:25, Clark, Raymond (WBST) wrote:

> Selected "All" to "download only"
> 
> About 31% of the way through, a dialog box with the following popped up:
> 
> Can't open
> C:\users\clark\Public\PC-SystemStuff\cygwin-1.7.5_2010.07.23\cygwin-1.7.
> 5_2010.07.23_Download\http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcyg
> win%2f\release\GNOME\gobject-introspection1.0-0.6.14-1.tar.bz2.tmp for
> writing: No such file or directory
> 
> The directory:
> 
> C:\users\clark\Public\PC-SystemStuff\cygwin-1.7.5_2010.07.23\cygwin-1.7.
> 5_2010.07.23_Download\http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcyg
> win%2f\release\GNOME\gobject-introspection1.0 
> (CORRECTION is to append 1.0 to the directory name)
> 
> exists.
> 
> Any idea what is wrong?  I am running on Windows XP SP3.

  I'm not sure, but you're pushing right up against the limits of a win32 file
path there.  Does it work if you use a local package directory with a shorter
path?  Try something directly under C:\users\clark\Public and see if that
works, or maybe just removing one of the "cygwin-1.7.5_2010.07.23" levels from
your existing path will make it short enough.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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