On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:26:18PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:46:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I really think that a general purpose utility like rebase, which could >> be used repeatedly (as opposed to occasionally for debugging >> purposes), should be a cygwin program. > >Since there haven't been any strong Mingw votes, I have converted my >rebase to a Cygwin app. Should I also convert my rebaseall.bat to a >shell script too?
IMO, yes. >> Linking libraries statically should solve the problem of attempting to >> rebase a 'linked in' DLL. > >BTW, rebase will ultimately be able to handle in-use DLLs by doing the >MoveFileEx(MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) thing. So, rebasing cygwin1.dll >and other in-use DLLs will not be a long-term problem. Cool. I was going to suggest this but was afraid that you'd say "Patches gratefully accepted." :-) cgf
