Bug#120705: prelinking

[Peter Wächtler <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>]

Hi,

on SGI IRIX systems there is a toolset called "ELF Quickstart".

It includes many smaller tools, but essantially it boils down
to this:

a) a "database" (undocumented textfile) is maintained for 
	shared libs and information about the memory range they
	occupy

b) every time packages are installed (via inst or swmgr) the
	installer runs "rqsall" at the end

c) rqsall reads the database in and pre relocates the binaries
	against the libs it depends on

d) if there are conflicts, the dynamic runtime linker has to
	do the relocation for this conflict (lib) only

I have a lot of manual pages about that and try to push SGI
to donate this to the Linux community. ;-)

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