Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork
Gerrit P. Haase
gerrit@familiehaase.de
Fri Jul 8 09:48:00 GMT 2005
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>But what was wrong with my idea of making rebaseall a #!/bin/ash script?
>
>
> You still couldn't run the script from bash since the dlls would still
> be loaded. That would mean that you'd have to do something like:
>
> c:\>ash rebaseall
>
> (Currently rebaseall won't work as an ash script but the fix is trivial)
>
> I guess that's better than nothing but I still think that just not
> rebasing the bash dlls is going to result in fewer mailing list
> complaints.
>
> OTOH, if we had some coordination between the maintainers of DLLs in
> the distribution we could reduce the need for rebase a lot. I don't
> know if using --enable-auto-image-base would fix every problem but
> I suspect that it might help.
I suggest another simple solution. Teach rebase to read an INI file if
called without options, this INI includes all options needed for
rebaseall and then after closing all Cygwin processes a simple double
click on rebase from explorer (or calling from a .bat file) would be
sufficient to start it.
Gerrit
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