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From: "D. Boland" <daniel AT boland DOT nl>
Subject: Re: rebaseall breaks some packages(?)
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 11:21:05 +0200
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Hi Katsumi,

Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

> However, those reinstallations cause some other programs to not
> work.  For those other programs, rebaseall does help.  Though it
> breaks bzr, emacs-w3m, etc. again.  It's annoying.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Regards,

I agree. It's annoying. See this post also:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00894.html

I'm a developer of Windows software for 15 years now, and my clients never had to
rebase my binaries.

I'm also a Linux teacher and I use Cygwin in class. My students (100+) repeatedly
got these errors, so I switched to an improved version of apt-cyg, which does not
rebase. I'm a happy teacher now.

What's the deal with this "rebasing" anyway? Every compiler has a built-in mechanism
to create unique offsets. Windows itself also rebases binaries at load-time. 

On the other hand, why not rebase at compile-time? Rebasing should not be the
responsibility of the user, but of the developer. See this article:

http://harshdeep.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/thou-shalt-rebase-thy-dll/

Hmm.. This turned out to be a rant. I'm sorry for hijacking your thread.

Daniel


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