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Re: more prelink

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:42:15AM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:38:01PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Right.  What I was suggesting was a second dynamic tag
> > DT_GNU_PRELINKED_RELOCS so that --reloc-only could be used.  I don't
> > know if it's worth the effort, though.
> 
> I don't think so.  Certainly --reloc-only could not be used, because
> it would need to be some mode which would relocate and change relative
> relocs (and add that dynamic tag).
> And --reloc-only wants to do what linking the library again
> with a different base address in the linker script would do.

OK; then perhaps prelink --reloc-only should give an error on the
affected architectures?  No big deal either way - thanks for the
explanation.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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