uClibc & prelink

[Carmelo Amoroso]

Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> just to inform you that we (@STMicroelectronics) are working
>> to extend uClibc ld.so to support prelinking.
>> This would go through several steps because there are some
>> missing feature in uClibc.
>>
>> So in he near future I'm planning to post some patches for review.
>>
>> Steps should be as follows
>>
>> 1 Support for ld.so stand-alone mode (done)
> 
> Great, I have been meaning to do this for a long time but never gotten around
> to do it. My motivation was to simplify debugging and to support --library-path PATH
> as this has been requested a few times.
> 
>  Jocke
> 

Hi Jocke,
yeah, stand-alone for debugging is actually really useful.
At this tage we are not supporting extra arguments passed to ld.so
because we are focused on tracing capabilities for the prelink,
but it should be almost straightforward to extend it once integrated.

carmelo