Re: Observation for ALL maintainers who provide dlls (was Re: questionfor perl maintainer)

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, James R. Phillips wrote:
>
>
> > --- "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > The more I think about this, the more I believe that we shouldn't have
> > > > to continually tell users to run rebaseall.  Setting the base address
> > > > is something that should be done once, by the maintainer, not every
> > > > time a person installs a package.
> > >
> > > Amen, but before we setup a centralized database can we evaluate if
> > > --enable-auto-image-base suffices? For example, does it currently lead
> > > to any collision?
> >
> > Is there a way to force this linker option with a configuration flag in
> > g-b-s?
>
>
> Isn't it a configure option?  You can change the "conf()" function to pass
> it in.  For linker options, set MY_LDFLAGS in the beginning of the script.
> 	Igor

Doesn't libtool always defines --image-base when building a DLL, or is
this only with ancient libtool versions?

Gerrit
--
=^..^=