Mon Sep 26 13:23:05 2016: Request 118053 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by kbr...@cornell.edu
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #118053] Problem with packed perl archive for
biber on 64-bit Cygwin
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Requestors: kbr...@cornell.edu
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >
On 9/26/2016 1:16 PM, Roderich Schupp via RT wrote:
> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Ken Brown via RT <
> bug-par-pac...@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
>
>> The change was to remove
>> these two arguments from the invocation of pp:
>>
>> --link=/usr/bin/cygssp-0.dll
>> --link=/usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll
>>
>
> I was going to suggest that as well: these result in a second copy of the
> DLL to be unpacked - while the first copy is probably already in use.
> Which Windows doesn't allow i(the Linux equivalent error would be EBUSY).
> But then I convinced myself that the two copies would go to different
> directories (the first to the root of the cache area, the second to
> cache/shlibs or similar)...
No, they were actually both going to the root of the cache directory.
So you're explanation makes perfect sense.
Thanks.
Ken
