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

[Charles Wilson]

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