[RFC] incremental rebase

Peter Rosin peda@lysator.liu.se
Thu Nov 20 16:35:00 GMT 2014


On 2014-11-19 20:19, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:

*snip*

> * EVERY (sub)package with a DLL would include a (cygport-generated) 01-rebaseall.bat -- note that this name is NOT package dependent, but clobbering is okay wrt postinstall scripts -- which would then cause rebaseall to be run only once per install and only when necessary;

*snip*

> Thoughts?

Clobbering might be ok until there is a need to update the cygport-generated
01-rebaseall.bat for some reason. When that happens a massive rebuild is
required (in this case only for DLL packages, but it's still massive). Or am
I missing something?

Cheers,
Peter



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