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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:41:08 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Satish Balay wrote:

> 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.

As far as I know almost all of the issues of corrupted DLLs have been
fixed, but there still remains at least one known problem: emacs will
hang and refuse to start after running rebaseall, unless you revert
cygncurses-7.dll to its non-rebased version.  However other ncurses
programs don't seem to have an issue with the rebased DLL.

And as I said, the problem of in-use DLLs is a serious hinderance to
automating the rebaseall process.  Even if the ncurses/emacs mystery was
solved, this would still make integrating rebaseall into setup somewhat
challenging.  I did not have a chance to review Jason's setup patches
from 2002 but from my quick look it seems that it did not address this
issue.

Nobody is intentionally trying to make Cygwin hard to use, it's just
that fixing it so that no user intervention is ever required is a
problem that requires more effort than anyone has ever desired to
spend.  I don't know why Jason's efforts in 2002 to rebase from within
setup stalled, as I was not following the development of setup at the
time.  I can only assume there were too many objections and he did not
have time or desire to address them.

Brian

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