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From: "Norman Vine" <nhv@cape.com>
To: "'Jason Tishler'" <jason@tishler.net>,
   "'Cygwin'" <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: "'Roth, Kevin P.'" <KPRoth@MarathonOil.com>
Subject: RE: rebase for setup (curl)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:02:01 -0500
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Jason Tishler writes:
>>
>So, the options passed to ld are the same for cygcurl-2.dll and pq.dll
>except for the slight variation of --base-file versus --image-base.
>
>I decided to table the search for the "offending" ld option(s) because
>of the following gloomy thought:
>
>    Given that rebase can break certain DLLs and that it is nearly
>    impossible to control how arbitrary packages create their DLLs,
>    can setup.exe's proposed rebase solution deal with this problem?
>    Or, is the rebase solution doomed to failure?
>
>Does anyone have any bright ideas?

What happens if you link with
--enable-auto-image-base   ??

Cheers

Norman

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