[OT?] rebasing cygwin, was: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

[Thomas L Roche]

Al Williams 13 Feb 2004 13:18:32 -0800
> I was having this problem. Rebasing the Cygwin DLLs seems to have
> cleared it up. Install rebase using setup and then exit all Cygwin
> stuff (including httpd, etc.). Then open a plain shell (not an xterm)
> and enter:

> rebaseall -v

Could you give me, or pass pointers to, a bit more information about
rebase? I'm asking because I can't find much online, except

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-09/msg00039.html
> <WARNING>
> It is *strongly* recommended that users only use rebaseall unless
> they *really* know what they are doing or are instructed by one of
> the Cygwin developers.
> </WARNING>

which is pretty scary. It continues,

> The Cygwin rebase package contains two utilities, rebase and
> rebaseall. The first utility is modeled after Microsoft's SDK
> rebase:

> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/tools/perfutil_2z39.asp

which 404s.