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.
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.
Dave.
--- origsrc/rebase/rebase.c 2013-03-19 17:33:54.000000000 +0000
+++ src/rebase/rebase.c 2013-11-29 18:32:08.760089000 +0000
@@ -861,6 +861,7 @@ collect_image_info (const char *pathname
img_info_list[img_info_size].slot_size
= roundup2 (img_info_list[img_info_size].size, ALLOCATION_SLOT);
img_info_list[img_info_size].flag.needs_rebasing = 1;
+ img_info_list[img_info_size].flag.cannot_rebase = 0;
/* This back and forth from POSIX to Win32 is a way to get a full path
more thoroughly. For instance, the difference between /bin and
/usr/bin will be eliminated. */
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