On Tuesday 14 January 2003 00:06, Andy Arbon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just used prelink on my system and it's thrown up a few errors that
> aren't covered in the docs. If someone who understands them could
> explain them and any steps that I could take to rectify them I'd really
> appreciate it. Some of these appear more than once for different files.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
> prelink: /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1: Library without dependencies
No dependencies is no problem at all!

>
> prelink: /usr/bin/gnucash: Could not parse `/usr/bin/gnucash: error
> while loading shared libraries: libgal.so.20: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory'

Well, I guess you didn't use gnucash lately as apparently there is no 
libgal.so.20 to be found. Unmerging and merging might help

>
> prelink: /usr/kde/3.1/bin/artscat: section file offsets not
> monotonically increasing
>
Don't know about this one though. But don't worry.

> prelink: /usr/lib/transgaming/winex/bin/dosmod: Not enough room to add
> .dynamic entry
> -- The docs say that wine(x) won't work.. I'm just curious about what
> the error means
>

This means that it is linked with an old version of binutils that doesn't 
support prelinking. The error is rather mystic though ;-) .

> prelink: /usr/bin/emacs: COPY relocations don't point into .bss or .sbss
> section

Don't know either, but emacs doesn't have itself prelinked. Live with it.

Paul

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