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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Jason Tishler" <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Cc: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>,
   "Cygwin" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rebase addon - Bas and Size listing of dll's without rebasing
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 00:27:12 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Tishler" <jason AT tishler DOT net>
> > IMO we should be using bfd not the MS helper libraries - in the long
> > term. Otherwise one cannot do any of this as part of a cross compile
or
> > cross-manipulation toolkit.
>
> Good point.
>
> I'm willing to do the right thing, but that is going to take longer
given
> the ramp up necessary for me learn about binutils' configury/make,
bfd,
> etc.  However, I would like to get a rebase solution into setup.exe
ASAP.
> Is a two prong approach acceptable?  In the short term, add rebase to
> winsup/utils, integrate directly into setup.exe, etc.  In the long
term,
> add rebase to binutils, integrate with ld, etc.

Yes. In fact it's probably a requirement, as setup.exe cannot get too
big.

Does the MS solution need .dll's not present on win95a ?

Rob


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