On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:31:13PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Ben, > Well on ppc we will have one specific requirement. All builds will > have to be done on binutils 2.13.90.0.6 or greater. This is because > in binutils 2.13.90.0.5 a glitch in how *r_offset was set was corrected > (now its always zero) that prevented prelink from unprelinking back to > the original binaries. This was because the value of *r_offset was set > in an unpredictable manner before. The need for binutils 2.13.90.0.6 > is because of a bug that caused libraries to be created by ld which > were not properly -zcombreloc and caused prelink to complain. This > fix is multi-arch so while we don't know for sure if it effected non-ppc > arches before 2.13.90.0.6, it certainly can't now.
Let me be clear: that is a requirement for _prelink_, not for glibc. Glibc should be fine with our current binutils packages. So this does not need to be done right away. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
