prelink breaks glibc-2.3.3-3.ppc.rpm (which breaks rpm)

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:00:49AM +0000, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> I updated my box yesterday and rpm broke overnight (presumably when
> prelink ran from cron), it looks like something about the way
> libc.so.6 gets prelinked from glibc-2.3.3-3.ppc.rpm changed (I'm not
> entirely sure what version I had before).
> 
> I'm getting:
> 
> rpm: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.2.so: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0fe750d8 for symbol `memset' out of range
> 
> (along with anything else which uses librpmdb-4.2.so).
> 
> Using nm on libc.so.6 with prelinking and after a prelink -u, I get:
> 
> [alexk at alexk rpm]$ nm /lib/libc.so.6 |grep memset
> 0fef21a4 t __GI_memset
> 0fef7a58 t __GI_wmemset
> 0fef21a4 T memset
> 0fef7a58 T wmemset
> [alexk at alexk rpm]$ nm /lib/libc.so.6 |grep memset
> 000821a4 t __GI_memset
> 00087a58 t __GI_wmemset
> 000821a4 T memset
> 00087a58 T wmemset
> 
> I'm not sure if this is really a glibc bug, a prelink bug, or if rpm
> should be built with -fPIC (which is what I'm just trying).

rpm bug.  I believe Jeff already fixed it.

	Jakub