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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:48:24 -0700
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On 12/11/2010 4:48 AM, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 11.12.2010 00:14, schrieb Warren Young:
>> Point me to your source package, and I'll download it and try building
>> it in a loop here.
>
> http://home.pages.de/~mandree/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.3.19-1-src.tar.bz2

I assume cygport returns nonzero when your rm failure happens.  This 
loop has been running for about three hours (~40 iterations):

     while true
     do
         if cygport fetchmail-6.3.19-1 all > build.log 2>&1
         then
             echo `date` >> loop.log
         else
             echo FAIL
             exit 1
         fi
     done

Can this catch your problem, in principle?

I'll assume it can, and leave it running overnight to increase the 
chance that it triggers your bug.

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