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"SLC5X: Letter P: prelink

prelink - An ELF prelinking utility

License: GPL
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared libraries
and executables, so that far fewer relocations need to be resolved at runtime
and thus programs come up faster.

Packages

prelink-0.4.0-2.el5.i386 [1013 KiB] Changelog by Jakub Jelinek (2008-09-18):
- add support for -c /etc/prelink.conf.d/*.conf in prelink.conf (#249889)
- remove no longer existent directories from default prelink.conf (#248694)
- reenabled prelink C++ optimizations which have not triggered any longer
  since _ZT[IV]* moved into .data.rel.ro section from .data
- fixed performance issues in C++ optimizations, especially on GCJ
  CNI programs (#314051)
- other performance improvements, prelink -avmR after prelink -ua now
  takes roughly 3m4s real time instead of 20m27s before
- don't run TEXTREL tests if SELinux is enforcing (#245928)
- don't leave temporary files behind on prelink --verify failures (#199251)
- fix adjusting of .debug_ranges if end of range is at the end of some
  section and there is padding before the following one

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