setup revisit

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:19:32PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> You do have to say this when you are installing the cygwin package.
>> Other packages are unaffected.  With the old installer any
>installation
>> (gcc, bash, ncurses, etc.) was affected by the cygwin conflict.
>
>Oh. That wouldn't have affected what I was suggesting (the current
>cygwin1.dll would be used unless an update was present - in which case
>it comes back to the current setup's behaviour.).

And if the current cygwin1.dll is B20?  Do you want to rely on that?
Or if it is a buggy snapshot?

>> >True.  I was hoping to put my nose down and hack all weekend, but it
>> >looks like rpm is *not* going to play nice so I'll give it a slightly
>> >lower priority for now.
>>
>> Don't let me discourage you though, Robert.  If you can get this done,
>> it will be pretty cool.  Doesn't RPM have a library like interface,
>too?
>>
>
>I'm lookinginto that. The RPM issue I'm fighting with currently is
>porting sleepycat's db to raw win32 as a static library. (It doesn't
>build with gcc unless you build it for cygwin :[).
>
>Once that's out of the way I can actually try to build rpm natively.

The last I remember, rpm needed chroot() to function.  That's why I
asked Corinna to implement this in Cygwin.

cgf