On Nov 30 06:32, David Stacey wrote: > On 02/11/2013 11:06, David Stacey wrote: > >I'm trying to reinstall 64-bit Cygwin, using a snapshot taken on > >2013-10-24. The post-install step goes into an infinite loop > >whilst running 'texlive-collection-basic.sh': perl is attempting > >to load some modules (IO.dll, MD5.dll, Fcnt.dll, Cwd.dll), which > >fail with rebase errors. The script waits five seconds before > >trying (and failing) again; this repeats ad infinitum. > > I am pleased to report that I have tracked down the cause of my > rebase woes to an uninitialised variable in the 'rebase' package. A > simple patch (attached) fixes the problem.
Patch applied, thank you *very* much for tracking this down. > Jason Tishler: As rebase maintainer, if you agree with my diagnosis > then please could you make new versions of 'rebase' containing the > fix for both architectures. Thank you. Jason, do you have time to do that? Otherwise I can create new packages as well (after bumping the version to 4.4.1). Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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