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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>, <jm DOT poure AT freesurf DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: RPM 4 under cygwin
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:42:33 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
> 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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