cygwin-setup & rebaseall

Jason Tishler jason@tishler.net
Tue Oct 25 11:37:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:57:21PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Satish Balay wrote:
> > Ok so the problem is likely to go away for python users.
> 
> I don't know if Jason has started compiling Python with
> --enable-auto-image-base or not.

I have been using --enable-auto-image-base since the very first Cygwin
Python release -- about 5 years.

> [snip]
>
> The only workable solution would be to incorporate the entire
> rebaseall functionality internally into setup.exe, which is not an
> insignificant undertaking, and one which no one is eager to undertake.

FWIW, I submitted patches to Cygwin setup.exe to add rebase
functionality:

    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-02/msg00010.html

Unfortunately, they were rejected by a previous setup.exe maintainer.

Jason

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