Re: [PATCH cygport] A patch to add a flag __SKIP_LIST_DEPS_LUA

[Lemures Lemniscati <lemures.lemniscati@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 07:59:14 +0100, Achim Gratz
> Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps writes:
> > Does it mean that we should have a way to rebase such dynamic objects
> > automatically?
> 
> Well, the first step is to make sure that packaged and locally installed
> stuff stays separate (for Perl this is the distinction between vendor
> and site distributions) and set up a sensible precedence order.  Next is
> that users might not have admin rights, so there's a separation between
> local system and local user to consider (Perl: local::lib).  Once you
> have that sorted then yes, you need to think about when and how to do
> the rebase of any dynamic objects you are going to produce.  For Perl I
> managed to insert an automatic ephemeral rebase, but only for i686 and
> packages built with ExtUtils::MakeMaker (so that build tests can
> actually work without having to do an extra step).  The local
> installations should be taken care of via the autorebase facilities,
> although that requires cooperation from the system admin for user
> installations.
> 

Thank you for comments and advices.
I'll try it.

Regards,

Lem