Re: [gentoo-dev] prelink issues

[Dylan Carlson <absinthe@pobox.com>]

On Monday 13 January 2003 06:06pm, 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.
>

Prelinking is not predictable.  

I've got two gentoo systems here in front of me... built almost 
identically, but I experienced different results with each.  After doing a 
prelink -afmR, it's an edgy day of experimenting to figure out what broke.

That said, *most* things work.  Some things you won't find until you give 
real usage (like my printing failures -- thought I had problem with cups 
-- and it was ghostscript giving me a runtime error on account of 
prelinking).

Other bins that prelinked without error, and gave me runtime problems: 
man/groff/troff, kde's moc, fluxbox.    I'm forgetting others.

The moral of the story is, people shouldn't expect everything to work just 
because prelink doesn't give an error.    IMO it was hasty to unmask 
prelink, esp on the eve of 1.4's release...  If it were me, I'd make that 
a post-1.4 feature.

These issues will go away over time... On my systems, prelinking has been 
nice for KDE stuff in particular and that's why I continue to use it.   
OpenOffice is still slow.   Everything else was probably fast enough 
without prelinking to where I don't notice a difference now...  

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com]

--
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list