Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

[Bob Kline]

On 8/10/2010 11:16 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> Bob, FYI, I've been running Cygwin 1.7x and latest X on Win 7 Pro
> 64-bit and not problems setting up or running.  In other words, it
> works right out of the box.
>    

Thanks for the data point, Jim.  The two possible explanations that come 
to mind for the difference in results between your system and mine are 
(a) there's some difference in the way Win 7 Pro and Win 7 Premium 
behave which accounts for the failure on Premium; or (b) you installed 
at an earlier point in time, when something was different about the 
Cygwin packages or the Windows patches or both.  I'm inclined to think 
(b) is more likely.  Jon pointed out earlier in this thread that the 
visible reporting of postinstall failures is a recent change, so perhaps 
the installation failures occurred on your system as well, but the 
installer didn't bother to report them.  I'll see what I can learn about 
theory (a) by experimenting with a virtual Win 7 Pro system.

-- 
Bob Kline
http://www.rksystems.com
mailto:bkline@rksystems.com


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