Remap problems with Perl 5.8 and 1.3.13-2

[Ralf Habacker]

> 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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