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Re: How to "bisect" Cygwin?


On Jun  1 12:46, Ryan C. Underwood wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 04:01:43PM -0500, Ryan C. Underwood wrote:
> > 
> > How can I "bisect" Cygwin i.e. by setting a certain date at which to
> > install packages that were current as of that date, and checking if
> > problem remains, so as to track down the date a problem/different
> > behavior was introduced sometime in the past year?  Actually, if I
> > could start with the Cygwin DLLs themselves, that would probably get
> > me to the bottom of it.
> 
> I located the problem, it came in between the Time Machine 2012/02/04
> and 2012/02/05 archives.  Unfortunately, this looks like a major
> release for Cygwin happened on that day:
> 
> good:
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 MYPC 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
> bad:
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 MYPC 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) 2012-02-05 12:36 i686 Cygwin
> 
> I tried diffing the CVS by tags but it doesn't look like 1.7.9 was
> tagged, or else the tags were removed as obsolete.  Any suggestions as
> to the best way to dig into the differences here?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-06/msg00008.html

And on an even more important note, you never mentioned in this thread
which problem you actually have: http://cygwin.com/problems.html


Corinna

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