preventing setup from forking
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon May 17 20:40:42 GMT 2021
On 17/05/2021 20:59, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> When I run
>
> c:\inst\setup-x86_64.exe -q -f -R c:\cygwin64 -l c:\inst -P libgcrypt-devel,asciidoc,cygport,gcc-g++,libpoppler-cpp-devel,libpcre-devel,dejagnu,texlive-collection-latex
>
> or
>
> c:\inst\setup-x86_64.exe -qvW -f -R c:\cygwin64 -l c:\inst -P libgcrypt-devel,asciidoc,cygport,gcc-g++,libpoppler-cpp-devel,libpcre-devel,dejagnu,texlive-collection-latex
>
> the prompt returns immediately. This is causing problems when it is run from a (windows) ssh session.
--wait should be doing what you want.
I recently discovered that if the invoking shell is PowerShell, then
because setup is a GUI application, PowerShell doesn't wait, so maybe
that's what's happening here...
> Any thoughts?
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