Preliminary ELF prebinding patches available.

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sun, 25 May 2003 22:31:20 -0700
Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:

> The prebinding information lives under /var/db/prebind, right?
> I don't think we normally put our executables there as well and
> if we do, we don't have the prebind information *in* the executable.
> Hence, prebind information is decoupled from the executable. One

I try to determine how this influences the ports collection...

Do we have to include the prebinding information in a package or can we
omit them (I assume: we can omit them but it would be beneficial)?

If we have to include it: What happens if: A library on the build system
contains symbol "foo", a program in package "bar" is linked against this
lib, but doesn't references "foo". This package is now installed
together with the prebinding information from the build system on a
system where an older version of the library without the "foo" symbol is
installed.

Bye,
Alexander.

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