Dan Harkless wrote: > Does this mean setup.exe should be modified to do a rebaseall as the final > step of installation, so fresh installs of Cygwin won't be broken > out-of-the-box?
This has been discussed in the past. It's not a good idea, because: - rebaseall is not always needed, only in certain combinations of circumstances, so doing it always is a waste of time/effort/extra step to go wrong. Most users will never need to do it. - rebaseall is kind of an ugly hack, a temporary crutch until such time as all maitainers have compiled their packages with -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base, then we could retire the notion of manually assigning base addesses after-the-fact. - rebaseall currently breaks the emacs package, if installed. - rebaseall requires that no files be in use, otherwise it aborts at the first DLL it cannot open for writing. Apparently the notion of stopping all Cygwin apps/services before running setup.exe is way beyond some people, so this would end up being yet another thing that trips them up. Brian -- 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/
