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Re: rebase problem for cygcurl-2.dll still existing?!

Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> 
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> 
> >>Is that a deficiency of cygwin as a whole, or just related to the way
> >>my DLL was built?)
> >>
> >
> >Cygwin's fork() attempts to load DLLs in the child in the same location
> >as in the parent.  If it fails, then the child aborts.
> >
> Other than the lack of someone writing the code, is there any reason why
> fork() can't automagically try another location?  Is this even possible?
>  Or does it go against the way Cygwin/Windows works?
> 

The correct answer to this question is "Use the source, Luke" (tm).

Earnie.
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