Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

[Jon TURNEY]

On 10/08/2010 13:12, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 10/08/2010 00:19, Bob Kline wrote:
>> I finally had to replace my ancient Windows XP box, and ended up with a
>> Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system. If I run setup.exe to install a fresh
>> cygwin, it succeeds as long as I don't touch the X11 set, leaving it at
>> Default (which is to say, don't install anything in the set). If I change
>> Default to Install for X11, I get a dialog box which says:
>>
>> Cygwin Setup - Running postinstall scripts
>> Postinstall script errors
>> The following errors occured executing postinstall scripts
>> Package: gcc4-core
>> gcc4-core.sh exit code 126
>
> This one is already reported at [1], and the workaround given there,i.e.
>
> chmod 755 /usr/sbin/fix-libtool-scripts-for-latest-gcc-runtimes.sh
>
> and then run /etc/postinstall/gcc4-core.sh manually should work.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that gcc4 is a dependency of X.
>
>> Package: libglade2.0_0
>> libglade2.0.sh exit code 2
>> Package: xinit
>> xinit.sh exit code 8

and since all xinit.sh does is run mkshortcut to create a start menu shortcut, 
I'd guess this is the same issue as [1], assuming we don't have a cygutils 
release with that fixed yet.

[1] http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00357.html

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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