On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 11:52, Sebastian Werner wrote:
> Hey
> 
> Sometimes ago there was a mail in this list, which tell us the way away
> from objprelink to full system prelink. Do you mean the prelink-concept
> by Jakub Jelinek? It look at his ftp-directory...

I believe that this can be enabled by turning the "-z combreloc" option
to "ld" on by default (probably by using a patch).  However, this breaks
binary compatibility with existing packages, which makes upgrading to
this new functionality quite a challenge.  It may be something that must
be enabled (via a USE var) at bootstrap-time only.

>From the "ld" man page:

"combreloc" combines multiple reloc sections and sorts them to make 
dynamic symbol lookup caching possible.

Note:

This feature may need additional glue in the dynamic linker.  I'm not
sure if the support is there yet.  You can probably do a google search
for "combreloc" and get more information.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@g.o>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.