[webkit-dev] prepare-Changelog crashing on cygwin

[Peter Kasting]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Tony Gentilcore <tonyg at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> Is this caused by the base load address of both perl and svn
>> conflicting/overlapping?  (I don't really know how CYGWIN works.)
>>
>
> I'm by no means a cygwin expert. I just happened to run into the same
> problem last week.
>
> This thread is where I found that solution (first suggested by evan):
>
> http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/bac1846c2678152d/4b9548cdd7214e4e
>

Note that the official webkit.org instructions tell you to do this:
http://webkit.org/building/tools.html

Is this something we should detect in our scripts and warn about?
>
>
I believe it's possible by checking the existing base addresses of the
modules.  I'm not sure on exactly how to do it.

PK
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