[fedora-arm] Include prelink in fedora arm?

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Sep 8 09:42:29 UTC 2011


On 09/06/2011 04:39 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>  On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:34:43 -0400, William Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com> 
>  wrote:
>> Would it be possible to get the new prelink rpm pulled into arm 
>> builds?
>>
>> The prelink arm support (rhbz#733089) is available in:
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=260584
> 
>  Can you elaborate as to why? My experience and measurements show that 
>  prelink does more harm than good more offten than not. I can think of a 
>  lot of reasons to not use it, and very few reasons to use it.

This seems to be a general argument against prelink, not ARM-specific.
If there's any special ARM-related reason not to prelink, then it makes
sense to do something different from other Fedora arches.  But if there
isn't, we should not diverge unnecessarily.

Andrew.



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