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Subject: Re: Q: rebaseall/rebaseperl ?
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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:22:13 +0200
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Am 05.07.2010, 23:09 Uhr, schrieb Cyrille Lefevre:

>
> Hi,
>
> any reasons why rebaseall and rebase perl aren't executed at compile  
> time ? or at packaging time ?

Probably because it's not possible to oversee which installation would  
need which libraries later, and because you'd have to have a registry, or  
algorithm to derive base addresses, for each and every potential library.   
Meaning: not manageable with reasonable effort.

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Matthias Andree

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