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Re: Observation for ALL maintainers who provide dlls (was Re: question for perl maintainer)
- From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:24:49 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Observation for ALL maintainers who provide dlls (was Re: question for perl maintainer)
- Reply-to: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
--- "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?