Greetings, Andreas Wettergren! >> Greetings, Andreas Wettergren! >> >> > Hi, >> > We have a shared Cygwin environment installed to a Windows network >> > share at my workplace, and I have been assigned the task to update it >> > (along with installing a Perl program I wrote + dependencies). >> >> I'll just throw in a note that the way Cygwin operates discourages any >> "shared" setup scenario. >> If you want a stable set of packages, your only real solution is a local >> package >> mirror. >> For more information, look up the "rebase" in Cygwin documentation. >> >> >> -- >> With best regards, >> Andrey Repin >> Tuesday, August 23, 2016 12:58:57 >> >> Sorry for my terrible english...
> Thanks for your reply. > Noted, but maybe we are talking about different types of sharing? > In our scenario we are actually using the Cygwin installation as a shared > multi-user system, > we are not sharing the just the installation packages for multiple > installations like a mirror. Yes, I did warn you about exactly that scenario. Especially dangerous for 32-bit Cygwin you are using, which has scarce address space to rebase DLL's to. It may work for cloned systems with stable set of applications installed, but once you encounter a system with somewhat different address space layout, the things will start to fall apart. > It's a bit wild if you ask me :) > If I didn't use it every day I wouldn't think that sort of setup would work > in practice. > There are some valid reasons it has been set up this way, but it does come > with some special headaches as well... > I'll look into rebase anyway, thanks for the tip. > (BTW, my original issue has been resolved, for details see my reply to Erik) Yes, I've seen it. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, August 24, 2016 12:45:03 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
