prelink

[Nathan]

Kyle Auble wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> So I'm not one of the devs but my first question would be are your 
> build-tools (specifically the linker, "ld" for gnu or "lld" for clang) 
> relatively up-to-date? Prelink used to be the default way to set the 
> DLLs in a specific memory location (for the occasional program that 
> expects that), but prelink brings a lot of baggage with it.
>
> I think Fedora actually stopped packaging prelink altogether a while 
> back, and I know Debian no longer builds their wine packages with it. 
> Apparently there are other ways to solve any problem that prelink can, 
> but you also need some newer linker features.
>
> For a little background, here's a mailing-list discussion...
> https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2015-August/108695.html
> ... and here's the patch that explains your warning message:
> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/a35f9a13a80fa93c251e12402a73a38a89ec397f 
>
>
> Kyle
>

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> This means your binutils version might not yet support the -Wl,-Ttext-segment option.
>
> Ciao, Marcus


Thanks for the information and links.

A distro I compile in:

ld --version
GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.0.2.20071001
Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


Another distro I compile in:

ld --version
GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.0.2.20091009
Copyright 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc

It is good to know that when I decide to compile with a newer version of 
my distro, with the included updated 'GNU ld', I will no longer need 
prelink.

Nathan