prelink (needed to compile wine) missing on Fedora 23

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Sat Sep 26 03:49:29 CDT 2015


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:54:39AM +0200, Sebastian Lackner wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, I asked the Redhat maintainer to forward this patch to us, he said
he needs to do some cleanups first.

Ciao, Marcus



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