what's the difference

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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.

Rich.

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