Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/11/07/14:18:00
Dan Harkless wrote:
> Does this mean setup.exe should be modified to do a rebaseall as the final
> step of installation, so fresh installs of Cygwin won't be broken
> out-of-the-box?
This has been discussed in the past. It's not a good idea, because:
- rebaseall is not always needed, only in certain combinations of
circumstances, so doing it always is a waste of time/effort/extra step
to go wrong. Most users will never need to do it.
- rebaseall is kind of an ugly hack, a temporary crutch until such time
as all maitainers have compiled their packages with
-Wl,--enable-auto-image-base, then we could retire the notion of
manually assigning base addesses after-the-fact.
- rebaseall currently breaks the emacs package, if installed.
- rebaseall requires that no files be in use, otherwise it aborts at the
first DLL it cannot open for writing. Apparently the notion of stopping
all Cygwin apps/services before running setup.exe is way beyond some
people, so this would end up being yet another thing that trips them up.
Brian
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