prelink (needed to compile wine) missing on Fedora 23

Sebastian Lackner sebastian at fds-team.de
Tue Sep 22 04:54:39 CDT 2015


On 22.09.2015 10:44, Zhenbo Li wrote:
> Thanks, Sebastian
> 
> 2015-09-22 1:55 GMT+08:00 Sebastian Lackner <sebastian at fds-team.de>:
>>
>> 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
> 
> 
> So I have this question: Do I need to apply this patch to wine-git
> before I'm working on wine?
> If I don't, will I face the risk that my patch may behave differently
> on other developers/users' computers and mine?
> 

For most parts of Wine it will make no difference. You should only keep
it in mind, when you want to reproduce bugs. There is a small chance that
you might run into a different issue without prelink or the patch applied.




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