Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:31:40 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin-setup & rebaseall
Message-ID: <20051025183140.GA19220@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 64 DOT 0510241321510 DOT 5697 AT asterix> <435D743F DOT EDB6FBB9 AT dessent DOT net> <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 64 DOT 0510242312570 DOT 8868 AT asterix> <435DBB31 DOT 5C164C83 AT dessent DOT net> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 63 DOT 0510250952420 DOT 9635 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 64 DOT 0510251103520 DOT 10334 AT asterix>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510251103520.10334@asterix>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:41:05AM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
>> Plus, as Jason mentions, rebasing corrupts some DLLs.  So, until a robust
>> solution for that is found, automatically rebasing in setup.exe isn't such
>> a hot idea.
>
>So the curent assesment is :
> 
> - python - and similar tools can break - is so use rebase to fix it.
> - rebase is broken - is lets not use it all the time.
>
>[so it appears cygwin can always be in broken state - this is not good]
>
>And Jason's post was in Feb-2002 - and things have been in this bad
>state since a long time.

And, yet, somehow, we survive.

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/