Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <42CE4B88.70102@familiehaase.de> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:46:48 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork References: <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8BA1C3FA AT exchange35 DOT fed DOT cclrc DOT ac DOT uk> <42CDD3B8 DOT 69B6AB98 AT dessent DOT net> <20050708011859 DOT GB24841 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <42CDD9CB DOT 8390A097 AT dessent DOT net> <20050708020511 DOT GA1718 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <42CDE3D4 DOT 6030507 AT byu DOT net> <20050708035038 DOT GB2123 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: <20050708035038.GB2123@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: >>But what was wrong with my idea of making rebaseall a #!/bin/ash script? > > > You still couldn't run the script from bash since the dlls would still > be loaded. That would mean that you'd have to do something like: > > c:\>ash rebaseall > > (Currently rebaseall won't work as an ash script but the fix is trivial) > > I guess that's better than nothing but I still think that just not > rebasing the bash dlls is going to result in fewer mailing list > complaints. > > OTOH, if we had some coordination between the maintainers of DLLs in > the distribution we could reduce the need for rebase a lot. I don't > know if using --enable-auto-image-base would fix every problem but > I suspect that it might help. I suggest another simple solution. Teach rebase to read an INI file if called without options, this INI includes all options needed for rebaseall and then after closing all Cygwin processes a simple double click on rebase from explorer (or calling from a .bat file) would be sufficient to start it. Gerrit -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/