prelink integration

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:38:13PM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
>On (14/12/10 15:05), Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
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>> Folks,
>> I'm periodically merging stuff from master back to prelink to keep them
>> up-to-date and usable to everyone would like to play with prelinking.
>> 
>> Did someone do ?
>> 
>> Once we will have the protected symbols reworked (by using the sym_value
>> struct as described in some previous emails), I'll work to integrate
>> this change into the prelink head where it will cause a conflict as
>> expected.
>> 
>> After that I'd like to start with integrating this big piece of work
>> into the master... but we need more people to look at this feature and
>> comment.
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>I will look into it probably next week.

I'll try to find some time to look at it during christmas.
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>> 
>> Please do not keep this branch living alone for a so long time as we did
>> for NPTL ;-)
>
>yes we should not.

I suggest we merge it right after 0.9.32 (i.e. end of january), ok?