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

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Jul 12 02:02:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:11:32PM -0700, James R. Phillips wrote:
>--- Jason Tishler  wrote:
>> I meant --enable-auto-image-base will only help, but not completely
>> solve the problem.
>> 
>> > nor the centralized database will work...
>> 
>> I'm concerned a global, centralized database will run out of address
>> space sooner rather than later.
>
>Hm, making rebase a part of setup (which I guess is intended in the future)
>seems to be the answer to this dilemma.

Actually, no, this is what I was trying to avoid.

FWIW, if a global, centralized database will run out of address space,
then it seems as though rebaseall is also going to run into problems on
some systems.

cgf



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