rebaseall ate my homework (Windows 10 install, that is)?

Wed Jun 29 03:59:00 GMT 2016

Warren Young writes:
> On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> I'm now pretty sure (it's happened 3 times since Thursday) that some
>> aspect of postinstall (2.5.1 or 2.5.2) has broken my Windows 10 64bit
>> installation.
>> Quoting from your setup.log.full:
>>> The following DLLs couldn't be rebased because they were in use:
>> /c/WINDOWS/system32/imgutil.dll
>> /c/WINDOWS/system32/msshooks.dll
>> /c/WINDOWS/system32/mssph.dll
>> …etc. I may well be misunderstanding something, but I don’t believe rebase has any call to touch such things. It should only be looking at files under Cygwin’s own /usr, as far as I’m aware.
>> Do you have paths such as these in /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst ?

No, I just checked.
>>> Anyone else had a bad experience lately?
>> My Windows 10 test VM here was updated to 2.5.2 not long after Cygwin
> 2.5.2 was first released. Nothing seemed to be damaged afterward.

> ...

Thanks for the additional info.
ht
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