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Re: [GTG] Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1


Dr. Volker Zell wrote:

Builds fine from source when using your patched cygport file, packaging and setup.hint look good

Thanks, Dr. Zell. I'm ready to upload inetutils-1.5-2 as a *test* release, but I have one remaining concern: I still haven't figured out why I was getting setup.exe failures.


As a reminder, the situation was:
(1) I created a local, incomplete cygwin "mirror", with my new inetutils packages
(2) generated a setup.ini using genini. This setup.ini looks good as far as I can tell.
(3) running setup.exe with that directory, my new package does not show up (at first). If I clock 'Back' a few times, so that the same setup.ini is re-read, then it DOES show up in the chooser. But when I 'choose' it, nothing is installed.


I tried to debug it but ran out of time -- I also discovered a few null-pointer accesses that occur in this situation, but only if DEBUG is defined [*]. I *hope* the non-DEBUG subobptimal behavior is an artifact of my incomplete local mirror.

But at this time, all I can do is upload the new packages, and hope for the best. So, I want to stand ready to pull them, if they do induce problems when included as part of a full mirror.

[*] Because -DDEBUG/#define DEBUG is not a normal part of setup.exe's "debug" builds (which only trigger -g and -O0), it looks like some of the DEBUG code has bitrotted.

--
Chuck


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