From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5186 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2014 12:44:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 5176 invoked by uid 89); 3 Nov 2014 12:43:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:43:57 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id sA3Chtqi001578 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 07:43:55 -0500 Received: from [172.160.101.209] (50-192-26-106-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.192.26.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id sA3ChsJo003548 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 07:43:54 -0500 Message-ID: <5457787E.3000309@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:44:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours References: <1413844739487-112040.post@n5.nabble.com> <5445C04A.3000407@cornell.edu> <1413864414772-112047.post@n5.nabble.com> <54465853.3040000@cornell.edu> <1414134682090-112141.post@n5.nabble.com> <24713230.20141024153002@yandex.ru> <1414559159086-112282.post@n5.nabble.com> <319337147.20141029151332@yandex.ru> <1414708038168-112334.post@n5.nabble.com> <54567198.8000504@cornell.edu> <20141103102515.GS14051@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20141103102515.GS14051@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 On 11/3/2014 5:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 2 13:02, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 10/30/2014 6:27 PM, Don MacDougall wrote: >>> So, why the >>> postinst scripts failed to run before, now becomes an academic matter for >>> me. >> >> Nevertheless, let me point out for the sake of the archives that the answer >> was contained in one of your earlier messages: >> >> On 10/24/2014 3:11 AM, Don MacDougall wrote: >>> Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/updmap line 59. >>> 7 [main] perl 8088 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap Fcntl.dll >>> to same address as parent (0x2E0000) - try running rebaseall >> >> The problem is that many of the texlive postinstall scripts run perl >> scripts, and these failed as above because rebaseall needed to be run. I >> guess this problem will occur whenever perl and texlive are installed >> simultaneously. >> >> I'm not sure what the solution is. Would it be hard to tweak setup.exe so >> that it runs the autorebase postinstall script before running any others? >> Or would this be a bad idea for other reasons? > > Off the top of my head I don't know how hard that would be, but it > doesn't sound like an especially bad idea to me. Au contraire. > > The only reasons not to do that would be if an installer script would > move DLLs around (Do we have that? I hope not) or if there's a simpler > solution. > > One thing we could test is if we can't get away without tweaking > setup.exe, by changing the dependencies only. Right now _autorebase > requires rebase and dash packages. Both are in Base anyway, but they > pull in more dependencies which result in something like a rat tail of > dependencies. So I'm wondering if tweaking _autorebase' setup.hint file > like this: It's worth a try. > sdesc: "Run rebaseall automatically" > #external-source: rebase > category: _PostInstallLast ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Wouldn't we also have to get rid of this? > -requires: rebase dash > autodep: .*/[^/]*\.(?:dll|so|oct)$ > incver_ifdep: yes > +noautodep: cygwin > > and tweaking cygwin's setup.hint file like this: > > sdesc: "The UNIX emulation engine" > category: Base > -requires: base-cygwin > +requires: base-cygwin _autorebase > noautodep: _update-info-dir > autodep: .* > > would do the trick. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple