Observation for ALL maintainers who provide dlls (was Re: question for perl maintainer)

[James R. Phillips]

--- "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote:

> > The more I think about this, the more I believe that we shouldn't have
> > to continually tell users to run rebaseall.  Setting the base address
> > is something that should be done once, by the maintainer, not every
> > time a person installs a package.
> 
> Amen, but before we setup a centralized database can we evaluate if
> --enable-auto-image-base suffices? For example, does it currently lead
> to any collision?
> 

Is there a way to force this linker option with a configuration flag in g-b-s?