X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:18:52 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to "bisect" Cygwin? Message-ID: <20120601181852.GF28506@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20120531210143 DOT GA11744 AT localhost DOT localdomain> <20120601174610 DOT GD25227 AT localhost DOT localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120601174610.GD25227@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Jun 1 12:46, Ryan C. Underwood wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 04:01:43PM -0500, Ryan C. Underwood wrote: > > > > How can I "bisect" Cygwin i.e. by setting a certain date at which to > > install packages that were current as of that date, and checking if > > problem remains, so as to track down the date a problem/different > > behavior was introduced sometime in the past year? Actually, if I > > could start with the Cygwin DLLs themselves, that would probably get > > me to the bottom of it. > > I located the problem, it came in between the Time Machine 2012/02/04 > and 2012/02/05 archives. Unfortunately, this looks like a major > release for Cygwin happened on that day: > > good: > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 MYPC 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin > bad: > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 MYPC 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) 2012-02-05 12:36 i686 Cygwin > > I tried diffing the CVS by tags but it doesn't look like 1.7.9 was > tagged, or else the tags were removed as obsolete. Any suggestions as > to the best way to dig into the differences here? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-06/msg00008.html And on an even more important note, you never mentioned in this thread which problem you actually have: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple