setup.exe rebase patch
Christopher Faylor
cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Tue Feb 26 19:06:00 GMT 2002
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:49:01PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Jason Tishler wrote:
>
>
>>>(Or do you rebase cygwin1.dll as well :]]).
>>>
>>
>>Yes, I can rebase cygwin1.dll too. This is why I converted the
>>stand-alone rebase to a Mingw app.
>
>
>Urk. If we follow Earnie's suggestion to include the output of 'objdump
>-S1' with cygwin1.dlll snapshots and the (main)cygwin package, then
>rebasing cygwin1.dll will break that. Seems like rebasing cygwin1.dll
>itself should never be the default behavior...
>
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2002-02/msg00029.html
I suppose that if we were really clever we could detect where cygwin was
offset to and readjust the symbol file accordingly as needed.
However, I agree that rebasing shouldn't be the default behavior. In fact,
I wonder if I should make cygwin non-rebaseable. It would load faster if
I did that.
cgf
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