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Re: Fw: Cygwin updates cause rebaseall errors
Greetings, Sisyphus!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Faylor" <
>> I'd highly suggest not including pointers to random web sites
>> as a method to fix this issue but, instead, point to the Cygwin FAQ and
>> the Cygwin mailing list.
> Seems a sane suggestion to me.
> 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
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 15.03.2012, <22:19>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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