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RE: setup.exe rebase patch
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:35:02 +1100
- Subject: RE: setup.exe rebase patch
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Note: libtool-devel does not use auto-image-base. I don't THINK
> libtool-stable does, either. And all of "my" DLLs have been rebuilt
> over the last several months without auto-image-base. Just FYI.
I know :}. I was quite active in the discussion that led to that status quo. IFF cygwin1.dll becomes non-relocatable || all cygwin1 linked dlls and modules get rebased correctly, then auto-image-base is allowed again (although with rebasing, it's kinda pointless :}).
> Also, there was some code passed back and forth a while ago
> (Rob, yours
> maybe?) that purported to add a "non-relocatable" option to
> binutils.
Not mine, I was looking for such though.
Rob