On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
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
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
Satish Balay wrote:
- open a dialog box with a message:
some packages that require 'rebaseall' are updated. This operation
cannot be done at this time due to active cygwin processes. Please
reboot, shutdown cygwin services, and run
Satish Balay wrote:
According to Jason's post, --enable-auto-image-base is been in use for
a while. [Since python doesn't always work without rebaseall] - is
there some other issue with this approach? [mabye some dependent
package should be built with --enable-auto-image-base - but it
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:57:21PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
Satish Balay wrote:
Ok so the problem is likely to go away for python users.
I don't know if Jason has started compiling Python with
--enable-auto-image-base or not.
I have been using --enable-auto-image-base since the very
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
Satish Balay wrote:
[maybe the fix is: for any package that is likely to break - add a
flag - which triggers setup to run rebaseall - after
install/upgrade. So no overhead for pacakges that don't break - but
always overhead for packages that
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
Automatically running rebaseall from setup.exe has issues too. For one
thing, it would run into problems if the user had programs or services
running. The rebaseall script bails if it cannot write to a DLL, so
unless the user was very careful to
Satish Balay wrote:
Doesn't setup have similar problem with updating 'packages' for
running apps? I think it prompts for a reboot to complete. So I'm
guessing the same approach can be used when it needs a rebase.
It's not as straightforward as all that. The facility to update a file on
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
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
Satish Balay wrote:
Doesn't setup have similar problem with updating 'packages' for
running apps? I think it prompts for a reboot to complete. So I'm
guessing the same approach can be used when it needs a rebase.
It's not as straightforward as
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
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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.
But at a cost of regular user frustation - which I was hoing could be
avoided.
From the replies so far - it appears
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
Satish Balay wrote:
Doesn't setup have similar problem with updating 'packages' for
running apps? I think it prompts for a reboot to complete. So I'm
guessing the same approach can be used when it needs a rebase.
Yes, of course setup already has that logic. That's what I was
referring to
Satish Balay wrote:
- open a dialog box with a message:
some packages that require 'rebaseall' are updated. This operation
cannot be done at this time due to active cygwin processes. Please
reboot, shutdown cygwin services, and run 'rebaseall' from 'ash'.
The thing is, you can't just do a
Satish Balay wrote:
Q: Does cygwin setup run rebaseall either during initial install or
during subsequent updates? [guessing no]
No, setup has no clue about rebaseall.
Q: Is it safe to say: 'if cygwin is installed from scratch - rebaseall
is not required'
That's not quite correct. Whether
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
Additionally, maintainers of these packages have (I believe) recently
started compiling them with --enable-auto-image-base which should
eliminate (or reduce) the need to rebase.
Ok so the problem is likely to go away for python users.
[for our
Satish Balay wrote:
Ok so the problem is likely to go away for python users.
I don't know if Jason has started compiling Python with
--enable-auto-image-base or not. It will also depend on the maintainers
of any libraries that are dynamically loaded by a python module using
the flag as well.
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