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


On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, James R. Phillips wrote:

> --- "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote:
>
> > > The more I think about this, the more I believe that we shouldn't have
> > > to continually tell users to run rebaseall.  Setting the base address
> > > is something that should be done once, by the maintainer, not every
> > > time a person installs a package.
> >
> > Amen, but before we setup a centralized database can we evaluate if
> > --enable-auto-image-base suffices? For example, does it currently lead
> > to any collision?
>
> Is there a way to force this linker option with a configuration flag in
> g-b-s?

Isn't it a configure option?  You can change the "conf()" function to pass
it in.  For linker options, set MY_LDFLAGS in the beginning of the script.
	Igor
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