what's the difference

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:45:59PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> 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)?

Perhaps a hard link, but if it's not causing any actual bug, I'd
rather leave it how it is.

Rich.

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