Re: Relocation patch for cygwin

[Bruno Haible]

[Dropping cygwin list from CC.]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> > in cygwin libintl is expected to place in /bin so there's no use
> > of relocatable.
> 
> Right, and it is intended that, in the cygwin official packages, both
> libiconv and libintl are built without relocation support.  If that
> isn't true, it's a (cygwin packaging) bug.

Right. If distro like Cygwin always installs libintl and libiconv in
a fixed place (considering Cygwin filenames, not native Windows filenames),
there is no need for --enable-relocatable.

> I have no opinion on whether perceived slowness in the relocation code
> itself, or in cygwin code called BY the relocation code such as
> format_process_maps, constitutes a bug either in cygwin or gnulib.

It is normal that --enable-relocatable has a runtime cost. Certainly when
you apply --enable-relocatable to small, fast programs like 'id' or 'pwd'
the runtime cost will be more perceivable than with programs which run
for longer than 1 second on average, such as 'emacs' or 'm4'.

Bruno
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