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Re: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:09:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
- References: <3CF65413.A77DACD1@cistron.nl>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:32:19PM +0200, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
>The error messages which Carl saw come from iniparse.cc, which in turn is produced
>from the parser definition in iniparse.y.
>
>>From the definitions in iniparse.y it is clear that the sdesc and ldesc arguments
>have to be put in quotes in order to be recognized as a single token.
>So, as John said, the example at the bottom of the page
>(http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html) is wrong and should be
>corrected. (Rob, are you listening ?)
What specific example are you looking at?
% grep sdesc setup.html
sdesc: <i>"some text"</i>
<p><tt>sdesc</tt> and <tt>ldesc</tt> are both mandatory fields for
the <tt>sdesc</tt> field is required for correct operation of setup.exe.
<p><tt>sdesc</tt> is a one line description of the package. This is the
<tt>sdesc: "boffo: A whackamole simulation in ASCII art"</tt>
<tt>sdesc: "A whackamole simulation in ASCII art"</tt>
sdesc: "A whackamole simulation in ASCII art"
<tt>sdesc: "A whackamole simulation in ASCII art"</tt><br>
<tt>sdesc: "Runtime library for a whackamole simulation in ASCII art"</tt><br>
They all seem to have quotes to me.
cgf