libtcl8.5.dll collides with Cygwin DLL by default

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 27 20:15:00 GMT 2012


On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 01:25:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:33:01PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 06:19:08PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>Chris?  Ping?
>>
>>I am aware that you want a change.  I will get to it when I get to it.
>
>To add a little more detail: the reason I didn't just roll a new
>binutils and dust my hands together over a job well done is because I
>don't like the idea of needing to release a new version of binutils just
>to update a constant in the source.  I was considering having binutils
>look at cygwin1.dll automatically but that is hardly foolproof.  I've
>finally decided that I'll modify --enable-auto-image-base to accept a
>number to use as the base.  Then there will always be a workaround when
>cygwin1.dll grows in size.

A new binutils has been uploaded.  Documentation has been updated for
the added functionality.

cgf



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