TL2024 from .iso fail under cygwin (win11 pro)

[David Carlisle]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 23:36, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>     I also got the same problem when I tried to use the Unix installer
>     under cygwin.
>
> Can you please run install-tl -v in the failing case and show us the
> output? The installer will use any of Perl LWP, wget, or curl (in that
> order), but I guess it doesn't notice when there's nothing available.
> --thanks, karl.
>

I suspect the problem is that the windows curl is in the path so it will
"find"
/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/curl
but that curl won't understand any cygwin paths and things will go wrong.
installing wget (or curl) in cygwin would put a cygwin binary ahead of that
in the path....
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