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RE: Remap problems with Perl 5.8 and 1.3.13-2
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:22:30 +0200
- Subject: RE: Remap problems with Perl 5.8 and 1.3.13-2
> This is the same old problem that has always existed with cygwin fork
> and perl, AFAICT. There is no guaranteeing that a dll which is loaded
> into a specific location in a parent will be loaded into the same
> location in the child.
>
> Cygwin tries to force loading in the proper place but sometimes Windows
> doesn't allow this. In some cases Windows allocates memory in the child
> where we'd like to locate a DLL. There isn't much that I can think of
> to fix that other than to rebase the dlls. And, even that doesn't work
> sometimes.
Are there any other known reasons beside the one that strip does not handle
relocations correctly ?
Ralf
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