Fw: Cygwin updates cause rebaseall errors

[Sisyphus]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrey Repin"

>> I'm a bit dubious about providing a hard link to
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures
>> as it seems like the sort of link that might change.
>
>> Would "Go to http://cygwin.com/faq/ and see the section 'How do I fix 
>> fork()
>> failures?'" be a better option ?
>
> You can safely give out the first link.
> Even if anchor name would be changed, the address of "nochunk" version of 
> the
> document is unlikely to be changed any time soon.
>
>> But then .... I'm not so sure about the advice offered in that FAQ entry. 
>> It
>> says "Read the 'rebase' package README in /usr/share/doc/rebase/, and 
>> follow
>> the instructions there to run 'rebaseall'".
>> But, although I have a /usr/share/doc folder, I don't have a
>> /usr/share/doc/rebase/ folder.
>
> You have to (re)install rebase package...
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=rebase%2Frebase-4.0.1-1&grep=rebase

Thanks Andrey !!

I'll attend to all that when I get a chance.

Cheers,
Rob


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