Greetings, D. Boland! >> 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 4.5, soon 5 years. There was a lot of work over rebase and it's cooperation with setup. Can you reproduce this issue today? > 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. I suggest a Linux VM, since you are a teacher. Strongly suggest. > My students (100+) repeatedly got these errors, Which are "these errors"? And how long you are using Cygwin? If you are using it from before the setup/rebase changes, may be, it's time to do a fresh install and see, if that would improve the situation? Or switch to x86-64 cygwin, which have a bit better situation with memory layout. > so I switched to an improved > version of apt-cyg, which does not rebase. I'm a happy teacher now. Unlikely it's true. More likely, it automatically rebase, but you did not notice. > 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. Windows and POSIX models require different load techniques. Cygwin provide POSIX compatibility layer. > On the other hand, why not rebase at compile-time? Because it's not possible for two reasons. First, packages are compiled in many different places, and second - there's just not enough memory to place every possible Cygwin library in 32-bit address space. Neither it's feasible, as noone need every cygwin package at once. > Rebasing should not be the responsibility of the user, but of the developer. Cygwin users are developers. That's the intended audience, anyway. > 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. It's a simple misunderstanding, overweighted with lack of information. If you do a search through the mailing list, you can find much better explanations for the reasons of rebase, than mine. -- WBR, Andrey Repin ([email protected]) 06.07.2014, <22:18> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
