prelink (needed to compile wine) missing on Fedora 23

Sebastian Lackner sebastian at fds-team.de
Mon Sep 21 12:55:26 CDT 2015


On 20.09.2015 17:10, Zhenbo Li wrote:
> Hello,
> I installed Fedora 23 Alpha to my computer, and tried to compile wine today.
> After running "./configure", I got this in my terminal
> 
> configure: WARNING: prelink not found, base address of core dlls won't
> be set correctly.
> 
> The reason is that prelink has been obsoleted since Fedora 23[1]
> 
> There is a successful build for wine on Fedora23[2], and it seems that
> that package has been affected by missing prelink too.[3]
> 
> Is this a critical problem? Should I ignore this WARNING, or try to fix it?

You might need it for some apps, especially older ones. The official Fedora
packages fix this issue by applying a patch to use compiler features instead of
prelink:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/wine.git/plain/wine-relocate-base.patch?id=b67dcb3e955e70c62bd098ae8039bb5c18cdb988

> 
> Thank you
> 
> [1]: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/prelink/
> [2]: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=683683
> [3]: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/wine/1.7.51/1.fc23/data/logs/x86_64/build.log
> 




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