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From: ralf DOT habacker AT freenet DOT de
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Subject: Re: Rebase dlls not from cygwin
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 22:03:51 +0200
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Am Dienstag, 24. Mai 2005 13:47 schrieb Jason Tishler:
> Hermann,
> 
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:06:29PM +0200, Hermann Klocker wrote:
> > Sorry if I email directly to you - I am new to cygwin. Please tell me
> > if I should have posted this report to another location.
> 
> I would have preferred if you posted to the Cygwin mailing list instead
> of sending private email.
> 
> > I think I have a problem similar to a posting I found regarding rebase
> > failing with message "not rebaseable".
> > 
> > I try to run Dakota 3.3 (from
> > http://endo.sandia.gov/DAKOTA/licensing/release/Dakota_3_3.cygwin.tar.gz) 
> > 
> > with cygwin 1.5.16. 
> > 
> > When trying to start Dakota I get the error message 
> > 
> > $ dakota
> >    1723 [main] ? 5132 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve 9891792 
bytes
> > of space for cygwin's heap (0x61810000 <0x15C0000>) in child, Win32 error
> > 487 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\dakota.exe (5132): *** m.AllocationBase 0x0,
> > m.BaseAddre ss 0x61810000, m.RegionSize 0x5B0000, m.State 0x10000

I recognized this type of problems with kde on cygwin too, when dll's  are 
rebased into the address area immediatly above the cygwin1.dll. I fixed this 
problems using the rebase base address option -b  e.g. 

rebase -b 0x61000000 ... 

Ralf 

> > After all I have read about this message I thougt rebase should solve
> > my problem, alas trying to rebase all dlls from Dakota (these are the
> > only ones residing in /usr/local/bin) gave:
> > 
> > $ cat list1
> > /usr/local/bin/mpich.dll
> > /usr/local/bin/mpichd.dll
> > /usr/local/bin/mpicherr.dll
> > /usr/local/bin/PHXCppApi.dll
> > 
> > Hermann AT dtkloh /usr/local/bin
> > $ rebaseall  -T list1 -v > rb.out
> > /usr/bin/tclpip84.dll: skipped because not rebaseable
> > /usr/local/bin/mpich.dll: skipped because not rebaseable
> > /usr/local/bin/mpichd.dll: skipped because not rebaseable
> > /usr/local/bin/mpicherr.dll: skipped because not rebaseable
> > /usr/local/bin/PHXCppApi.dll: skipped because not rebaseable
> > 
> > Do you have any hints regarding this problem?
> 
> At the moment no.  However, I was able to reproduce the above.  I will
> enhance rebase to indicated why it thinks a DLL is not rebaseable when
> the verbose option is specified.
> 
> Although this change may produce better diagnostics, it may not solve
> your problem.  Note that some DLLs are just not rebaseable -- for
> example, tclpip84.dll.
> 
> Jason

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