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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] prelink for ppc (especially) and x86 testers?
  • Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:01:34 -0400

I'm pretty sure that I didn't understand anything of what you said. But
that's ok, you know what you're talking about, I don't, so I'll trust
you when you say either "there's no point" or "it can't be done". I'm
not sure which you said, but I think it's one of the two.


On Wed, 2004-09-06 at 15:34 -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> Considering that the whole point of prelinking is to optimize the link
> location and avoid collisions among a large set of dynamic link
> scenarios, it only makes sense when run on an entire link-tree branch
> from the trunk to the leaves. There is no way that I know of to tell
> prelink to avoid prelinking (modifying) glibc, for example, while
> allowing it to prelink all the rest of the system, since the if it
> linked glibc first in a large link area that had been prelink-associated
> to everything else, the linker would have to fall back to normal linking
> for everything prelinked to it. non-ld Run-time linking wouldn't cause
> that problem, but init-time linking using ld would.
>
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:40:22PM -0400, Paul wrote:
> > Is it necessary to prelink all binaries, or is it possible to have not
> > prelink important things like stuff from basesystem? At least while it's
> > still in testing.
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-09-06 at 14:08 -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > > Anybody want to try prelink for ppc for me? test and devel grimoires.
> > > Probably will royally mess up your binaries -- no joke, full backup
> > > first.
> > >
> > > I believe x86 prelink is working up to snuff, testers for the 20040520
> > > version of prelink for x86 should have less risk, backups highly
> > > suggested as well.
> > >
> > > Just cast the spell and read the manuals and try doing it. It will mess
> > > up the sorcery-tracked md5s on your binaries. I'm writing a tool to
> > > work around that called "alter".
> > >
> > > Seth
> > >
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