question for perl maintainer

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:08:40PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> 
>>At 01:10 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>>In an attempt to work round the problem with readshortcut I reported
>>>earlier, I thought I'd use a Perl script. Unfortunately the
>>>Win32::Shortcut package seems to cause problems with process forking
>>>(unlike the readshortcut error, this one isn't specific to the latest
>>>cygwin DLL). I get an error
>>>
>>>C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (3088): *** unable to remap
>>>C:\cygwin\lib\perl5\vendor_perl\5.8\cygwin\auto\Win32\Shortcut\Shortcut.
>>>dll to same address as parent(0xBF0000) != 0x1110000
>>>    13 [main] perl 3716 fork_parent: child 3088 died waiting for dll
>>>loading 
>>
>>Sounds like a classic rebasing issue to me.  Have you tried running
>>'rebaseall'?
> 
> 
> Wouldn't this problem be ameliorated slightly if the perl DLLs all
> loaded in unique addresses to begin with?  Isn't the problem that all
> perl DLLs (and probably others) are loading in address 0x10000000?
> 
> Gerrit, would you be willing to change this so that the DLLs load in
> non-default locations?  This would probably help everyone right out
> of the box?

Sounds good.  WHat is the magic flag I need to add to the link commands?


Gerrit

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