prelink

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Apr 10 08:25:49 UTC 2008


Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> hi,
> 
> today I have some kind of bad day - I'm filing many bugs and doing many
> things I wouldn't do in a usual day.
> 
> I considered using prelink months ago but I was afraid.
> 
> I run "prelink -amR" today, but I saw warning about PIC.
> 
> I've read in Gentoo's docs that shared libraries must be compiled with
> -fPIC.
> 
> We do we have -fPIC in CFLAGS not, while prelink in repo?

It's a bug.  While x86 does allow shared libraries to compile without PIC,
it's always the wrong thing to do.

Andrew.




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