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PowerPC and TEXTREL in binaries

DISCUSSION Mark Hatle 1 participant 1 message May 30, 2012

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I've been chasing down a problem with prelinking and PowerPC. Even though the prelinker runs, it ignores most of the binaries on the system as they fail a basic sanity check looking for TEXTREL.

It appears most of the executables on qemuppc machine are linked without pic, but I'm not sure if this indicates a problem with the compiler, configuration or something else.

If we can fix this, and get everything (within reason) building with pic, the prelinker will start to prelink PPC binaries and -should- improve load performance.

--Mark