more prelink

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 11:39:06PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Jakub,
>    I think I have stumbled over another issue with prelink that
> could be problematic unless addressed. Currently the glibc srpms
> are using a postinst script to prelink libc.so.6 with the
> --reloc-only flag so it is relinked to the specified base address.
> If I do that on entropy with...
> 
> /usr/sbin/prelink --reloc-only=0x40000 /lib/libc-2.2.94.so
> 
> and then do a...
> 
> prelink -nav
> 
> ...to see what complete prelink would do, I find...
> 
> Would prelink /lib/libc-2.2.94.so
> 
> Isn't that going to undo the --reloc-only prelinking we just did?

It might give it a different base address, yes. And will
actually prelink it. Don't understand what's the problem.
libc.so is prelink -r'ed only to speed up unprelinked binaries.

	Jakub