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Date:      Mon, 26 May 2003 14:44:08 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        mdodd@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Preliminary ELF prebinding patches available.
Message-ID:  <20030526144408.1e4cc726.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030526053120.GB1941@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
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On Sun, 25 May 2003 22:31:20 -0700
Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote:

> The prebinding information lives under /var/db/prebind, right?
> I don't think we normally put our executables there as well and
> if we do, we don't have the prebind information *in* the executable.
> Hence, prebind information is decoupled from the executable. One

I try to determine how this influences the ports collection...

Do we have to include the prebinding information in a package or can we
omit them (I assume: we can omit them but it would be beneficial)?

If we have to include it: What happens if: A library on the build system
contains symbol "foo", a program in package "bar" is linked against this
lib, but doesn't references "foo". This package is now installed
together with the prebinding information from the build system on a
system where an older version of the library without the "foo" symbol is
installed.

Bye,
Alexander.

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