=== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Vine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jason Tishler'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Cygwin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Roth, Kevin P.'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 6:02 AM Subject: RE: rebase for setup (curl)
> Jason Tishler writes: > >> > >So, the options passed to ld are the same for cygcurl-2.dll and pq.dll > >except for the slight variation of --base-file versus --image-base. > > > >I decided to table the search for the "offending" ld option(s) because > >of the following gloomy thought: > > > > Given that rebase can break certain DLLs and that it is nearly > > impossible to control how arbitrary packages create their DLLs, > > can setup.exe's proposed rebase solution deal with this problem? > > Or, is the rebase solution doomed to failure? > > > >Does anyone have any bright ideas? > > What happens if you link with > --enable-auto-image-base ?? >From a libbfd point of view, all auto-image-base does is supply --image-base=<hash of filename>, so I'd be _amazed_ if this fixed a relocating issue. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
