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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing new Prelinking Guide
From:       Werner Van Belle <werner.van.belle () vub ! ac ! be>
Date:       2003-01-05 14:30:20
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On Sunday 05 January 2003 14:20, Stefan Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 08:01, Caleb Shay wrote:
> > Prelinking /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/sample_colorize
> > Segmentation fault
>
> I am not really all that surprised that is fails on a plugin as plugins
> are loaded on demand, thus prelinking them has little purpose as the
> loader has little chance of making use of the prelink info. Also they
> could have all sorts of strange dependencies on symbols in the parent
> gimp executable.

That doesn't explain why one set of options doesn't crash (-fmv) while the 
other set of options (-amv) does. And after all, a program that segfaults has 
a bug in it.

Furthermore, I've exactly the same behaviour as Mr. Caleb. If I start prelink 
- -anv it crashes after reading libstdc++.so.5.0.2.

- -- 
Werner,-
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