On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:55:06AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:44:48AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > >>It had sounded like there was consensus that -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base > >>should be used to build all dlls. Right now, we're a long way away from > >>that goal: > > > > > >Should I have marked this in the subject "Attention all maintainers"? > >I didn't want to do so not knowing for sure that the consensus was as > >above. > > It is default now in libtool to include this flag, so all packages using > libtool will be transfered automatically (if the latest libtool is used) > and I think that it is not that imortant to convert all older packages. > Most frequently reported problems are with perl, python and other > packages with lot of modules, also openssl was often a problem. > > Openssl uses a unique base address for libcrypto but not for libssl, > maybe both should use it? IMO important candidates are Apache/Apache2, > perlTk and Ruby. I don't understand why perlTk doesn't has random base > addresses, it should use ld2 as linker when building (but obviously it > wasn't used).
Perhaps he built it with an older release of perl?
