On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 12:08, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:02:40AM -0400, Benjamin Vander Jagt wrote: > > Prelink > > > > When I was using RedHat 8, I spied in the release notes a command to run > > to try out prelinking; something like /usr/sbin/prelink --all > > --conserve-memory. I tried it, got a few errors, and everything > > continued to work fine. Nothing crashed, no quirks, no missing > > The errors just mean that the libraries it complains about or any binaries > linked against them aren't prelinked. > > > libraries, etc. It was slow, though. In fact, it took about three > > times as long to start Mozilla. I did the same on another RedHat 8 > > system with the same results. > > You mean mozilla starts 3 times longer than when you do prelink -u > /usr/lib/mozilla*/mozilla-bin and retry? > I certainly don't see such behaviour. > mozilla-bin is not a program where prelink helps much, as it has in total > just about 4k relocations (it dlopens most of the libs), it should be way > more visible on something like KDE stuff. Most of KDE binaries can't get prelinked as they link against libGL.so which is not a PIC shared library. > Most of the errors are about libGL.so not being PIC, right? > That's something that needs still fixing. Exactly! Can someone explain why libGL isn't PIC? -- Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Linux Registered User #287198
