Subject: Re: RPM 4 under cygwin
From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
To: "Charles Wilson" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:42:33 +1100

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <[email-masked]>
> No, actually you are wrong -- this is not a demonstration of anything
of
> the sort.  Let us suppose that you COULD link cygwin1.dll statically
> (into rpm.exe?).  What mount table would be available for that
> cygwin-inside-rpm.exe to use?

As long as no absolute, non /cygdrive/ path access occurs, a static
linked cygwin1.dll would be sufficient for setup.exe. However other
issues still exist and I share your distate of the arrogant manner in
which the question?/statement?/whatever it was was communicated to us.

Rob

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