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Re: rebaseall breaks zsh?


On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Jason Tishler wrote:

> Peter,
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:25:32PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Rafael Kitover wrote:
> > > I noticed that the rebaseall scripts rebases
> > > /usr/bin/libzsh-4.0.4.dll and the modules in
> > > /usr/lib/zsh/4.1.1/zsh/*.dll, and that this breaks zsh. Rebasing
> > > libzsh stops zsh from starting, and rebasing the modules stops them
> > > from loading.
> >
> > Interesting.  Can you provide the options you used for rebaseall?  I'd
> > like to test this myself.
>
> The procedure for rebasing is simple (from the README):
>
>     Use the following procedure to rebase your entire system:
>
>         1. shutdown all Cygwin processes
>         2. start bash (do not use rxvt)
>         3. execute rebaseall (in the bash window)

I was interested in any parameters to which Rafael might have provided to
rebaseall, as the script allows you to change the base address and/or
offset.

> BTW, I was able to reproduce the problem in my system.
>
> Any ideas why rebasing breaks zsh?  A quick "objdump -p" did not
> indicate anything strange.

Not sure, which is why I want to test it myself on a clean system.

> Thanks,
> Jason

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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