Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:37:31PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> what's the difference between file eg
> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/ar
> /usr/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-ar
> they have different size?
> actually all file in /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/ has a pair in /usr/bin/
> with different size (and not link to each other). is this intentional or
> just some kind of accident?
I suspect they start out the same, but prelink stupidity kicks in.
$ rpm -qlvp mingw32-binutils-2.18.50_20080109_2-8.fc9.x86_64.rpm | grep ar\$
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 622560 Sep 24 16:52
/usr/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-ar
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 622560 Sep 24 16:52
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/ar
Unfortunately although I keep going on about how prelink is the most
completely broken concept ever, it persists in all versions of Fedora.
wouldn't it be better to make one of them to symlink to the other?
actually all files in /usr/bin can be a symlink to
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/.
just to make things cleaner (should i send a patch)?
--
Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"