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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:00:50 +0100 (CET)
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT gmx DOT net>
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To: Marcel Telka <marcel AT telka DOT sk>
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Subject: Re: RPM-4.1 port to Cygwin available
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote:

> > For that, however, these programs need to be *native Windows binaries* 
> > (i.e. no cygwin layer underneath), or you'd have a chicken-and-egg 
> > problem doing a first-time installation (or any time you updated cygwin 
> > itself).
> 
> What about linking cygwin library statically into rpm (or apt-get) binary?

This is currently not possible AFAIK.


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