[fedora-arm] Quick update on prelink

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/02/2012 03:57 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
>
>> Slight disruption over the weekend, but I re-read the ELF spec, Jakub's
>> paper, and started poking at the source. In large part, I wanted to make
>> sure someone was tracking this for future AArch64 stuff. But now, I'll
>> get back to actually fixing the problem, with an update to follow.
>
> Try this trivial patch to src/get.c that educates prelink about our
> linker (so it won't try to prelink the linker itself). This will then
> pass the testsuite. On the one hand, if this is all it is it's almost
> annoying that I went to the lengths to understand how it works before
> looking at it in detail, but on the other Jakub has told me there's not
> a lot of good data on prelink-on-arm so I need to do more code review
> /anyway/. Please try this patch and see what happens.

That patch builds and I've committed it to mainline rawhide/F-17 and
built ARM F-17. Ultimately if there's a better fix it can be added at
a later point and this should allow us to move forward so YAY!

Peter