In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Hey Ralf, do you have any interest in binary relocatability? I see your > web page talks about installing the same package in multiple locations > but it appears you mean to do that by recompilation. What do you think of > my hack to edit binaries at > http://www.bell-labs.com/nsbd/breloc.html That's a nice idea and hack, yes. We talked about this at dinner yesterday. We only disliked the use of the extra slashes. Sure, it is the only possibility for such a small hack. But the greatest would be if one could really relocate a binary: load it the ELF binary (via GDB's libbfd perhaps?), change the strings, relocate the changed symbols and create a new ELF out of it. I know this is a easy to express and horribly to implement idea. But that would be the greatest ;) OTOH the whole issue is not such dramatic for OpenPKG, because we usually do not care about binaries very much. We always start from the .src.rpm and use the binary .rpm just in an intermediate step (and them remove it immediately again). We use and recommend binaries only for bootstrapping, emergency and mass-installation situations. So the relocation issue is not such dramatic for us. Nevertheless it would be great if we could offer this, too. Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
