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From: Werner Van Belle <werner.van.belle@××××××.be>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing new Prelinking Guide
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:32:42
Message-Id: 200301051530.23640.werner.van.belle@vub.ac.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing new Prelinking Guide by Stefan Jones
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4 On Sunday 05 January 2003 14:20, Stefan Jones wrote:
5 > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 08:01, Caleb Shay wrote:
6 > > Prelinking /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/sample_colorize
7 > > Segmentation fault
8 >
9 > I am not really all that surprised that is fails on a plugin as plugins
10 > are loaded on demand, thus prelinking them has little purpose as the
11 > loader has little chance of making use of the prelink info. Also they
12 > could have all sorts of strange dependencies on symbols in the parent
13 > gimp executable.
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15 That doesn't explain why one set of options doesn't crash (-fmv) while the
16 other set of options (-amv) does. And after all, a program that segfaults has
17 a bug in it.
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19 Furthermore, I've exactly the same behaviour as Mr. Caleb. If I start prelink
20 - -anv it crashes after reading libstdc++.so.5.0.2.
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23 Werner,-
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing new Prelinking Guide Stefan Jones <cretin@g.o>