Fwd: Cygwin and SetFile

[Kelly O'Hair]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Stadelmann Josef" <josef.stadelmann at axa-winterthur.ch>
> Subject: Cygwin and SetFile
> Date: February 25, 2013 5:25:12 AM PST
> To: <kelly.ohair at oracle.com>
> 
> Hy Kelly,
> 
> a short question:
> 
> on my Windows Vista System I have installed quite a bunch of Cygwin tool
> chain as well as MinGW.
> 
> I took MinGW out from the path for a moment.
> 
> Running Cygwin's $ bash configure for build-infra/jdk8 configure 
> starts executing nicely but then hangs for SetFile
> 
> any attempt to invoked SetFile --help or setfile --help results in
> "command not found"
> 
> Going to the Cygwin setup - attempting to just download/install SetFile
> / setfile results in the fact that setfile is unknown in all components
> of Cygwin. So no download from Cygwin. 
> 
> I am by far not a master of Cygwin or shell script writing. 
> 
> Do you have any clue how I can go along with this problem for
> build-infra/jdk8 $ bash configure 
> 
> Josef