[webkit-dev] prepare-Changelog crashing on cygwin

Eric Seidel eric at webkit.org
Mon May 10 23:17:57 PDT 2010


More information about rebase here:
http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/rebase/rebase-2.2.README

I still haven't found any way to detect the problem so we could warn
people before scripts start blowing up.

-eric

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com> wrote:
> 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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