Hi Katsumi, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> However, those reinstallations cause some other programs to not > work. For those other programs, rebaseall does help. Though it > breaks bzr, emacs-w3m, etc. again. It's annoying. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > Regards, I agree. It's annoying. See this post also: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00894.html I'm a developer of Windows software for 15 years now, and my clients never had to rebase my binaries. I'm also a Linux teacher and I use Cygwin in class. My students (100+) repeatedly got these errors, so I switched to an improved version of apt-cyg, which does not rebase. I'm a happy teacher now. What's the deal with this "rebasing" anyway? Every compiler has a built-in mechanism to create unique offsets. Windows itself also rebases binaries at load-time. On the other hand, why not rebase at compile-time? Rebasing should not be the responsibility of the user, but of the developer. See this article: http://harshdeep.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/thou-shalt-rebase-thy-dll/ Hmm.. This turned out to be a rant. I'm sorry for hijacking your thread. Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
