Re: git on 64bit windows - state of the art?

From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2012, 02:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH3AnrqwUQkTAYHASgNMCTuCGFqsZUux44uhdMXGDGdJ9hV7oQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FE0D02B.2040703@obry.net>

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:

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> Jon,
>
> This is a known issue. I have since a long time left Windows world but I
> still have some notes to "fix" this:
>
> From the ash shell (be sure that no Cygwin process are still running):
>
> $ rebaseall
> $ peflagsall
>
> Try your command again. If it still doesn't work, try instead:
> $ rebaseall -b 0x50000000 -o 0x80000
> or -b 0xNNNN0000 where NNNN is any hex number between 2000 and 7000.
> The -o option tell to leave more space between the dlls, it may also
> help. It did in my case.
>
> If you are curious, look at /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase-3.0.README
> for more explanation.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Pascal.

Thank you. I think we have tried the -b option without much luck, but I don't think we have tried the -o option.

I will arrange to do some testing and will post to the list in a few weeks if this looks to be a definitive solution to the problem (or otherwise)

jon.