[fedora-arm] Fat Binaries

[Derek Atkins]

Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> writes:

> On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 08:15 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi Nick,
>> >
>> > I haven't set up a testing configuration yet but this looks very much
>> > like what we need.
>> >
>> > Before each linking pass, will the script attempt to flip all the
>> > libraries to the 'current' API? (Thinking down the road, one
>> > ramification is that all of the libraries installed into the mock chroot
>> > will need to be writable by the mock user).
>> 
>> Why can't the runtime linker make the change when it loads the
>> libraries?  Why would it require changing the files on disk?
>
> Sorry, to clarify: I meant for static linking (and the fat binary
> approach is only to bootstrap an optimized armv7hl build).

Okay, stupid question but again, why can't the static linker make the
changes to the in-core version of the library before it writes out the
resulting binary?  Actually, shouldn't the static linker write out a fat
binary?

> -Chris

-derek
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