ELF Binary Stripper?

[John Wendel]

Ron Yorston wrote:
> John Wendel wrote:
> 
>>I've got an FC3 "everything install, latest updates" system that has 
>>never had prelink run on it, unless it was run by the installer, since 
>>I don't run cron. The hardware is a 933 Mhz PIII, 512MB, Intel MB, 
>>80GB Maxtor IDE disk.
>>
>>As root, I ran "time prelink -av > foo".
>>
>>Wallclock was 2 minutes 16 seconds, CPU was 14 seconds. The system was 
>>responsive on another console while prelink was running.
>>
>>The output file contained one line,
>>"Laying out 758 libraries in virtual address space 41000000-50000000".
>>
>>There was some console output complaining about Firefox and Mozilla 
>>and unable to locate dependent somethings.
> 
> 
> That doesn't sound to me as if a full prelink was performed.  I've
> just run 'prelink -av' on a recently installed RHEL4 system.  There
> were hundreds of lines of 'Prelinking <pathname>' output.
> 
> With a Pentium III running at 850MHz this took 45 minutes 38 seconds
> of real time and 39 minutes 49 seconds of CPU.
> 
> Ron
> 

Strange! What would keep the full prelink from happening?

I'll run it again and use "--force" this time.

Regards,

John