Re: Using prelink

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub redhat com>]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 12:19:17PM -0500, Christopher Wong wrote:
> Has anyone tried Jakub's prelink? This is the utility that speeds up
> dynamic linking -- particularly C++ apps -- by doing, well, "prelinking".  
> I downloaded the version 0.1.3 RPM from
> ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink and ran it as "prelink -va". The
> thing seems to fail with:
> 
> /usr/sbin/prelink: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: Could not parse `lookup 0x40001000 
> 0x00007154 -> 0x40001000 0x00133074 /0 _nl_current_LC_CTYPE'
> /usr/sbin/prelink: Could not prelink /lib/libdl.so.2 because its 
> dependency /lib/i686/libc.so.6 could not be prelinked
> /usr/sbin/prelink: Could not prelink /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 because 
> its dependency /lib/libdl.so.2 could not be prelinked
> ...

If you got prelink-0.1.3-1, then it is way too old.
You should use at least prelink from 7.2 preview/, or even better
prelink-20011010.tar.bz2

	Jakub