On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:52:01AM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > >Hmm, perhaps you're the first person who's actually tried to use prelink on > >alpha? > >Nope, guess not: > >http://bugs.debian.org/223047 > >http://bugs.debian.org/276013 > >For my part, attempting to run "prelink -a" gives me an immediate > >segfault, and this is in a pristine sarge chroot with nothing > >significant installed at all. Since prelink has already been > >dropped from sparc recently due to critical breakage, it doesn't > >surprise me if the same is true on alpha. > Drat. Prelink would be nice to help speed up loads on my slow old > Miata. You do know that prelink only affects program startup times and has no impact on runtime performance, right? > I'll try prelink the individual libs one by one to see where it > starts to break ls/gtar/etc. And btw, does Debian have debug > packages? Binaries installed by debian are stripped, is there any way > to recover the stripped information? (Eg ala RPM's -debuginfo > packages). Availability subject to individual maintainers' discretion, but almost all such packages are named -dbg in Debian. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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