From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1.windriver.com ([147.11.146.13]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SZqpu-0003J2-NH for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 30 May 2012 23:53:47 +0200 Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca [147.11.189.40]) by mail1.windriver.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q4ULhQx7020832 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 14:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msp-dhcp40.wrs.com (172.25.34.40) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.255.0; Wed, 30 May 2012 14:43:26 -0700 Message-ID: <4FC6947D.6010803@windriver.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 16:43:25 -0500 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Subject: PowerPC and TEXTREL in binaries X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 21:53:47 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been chasing down a problem with prelinking and PowerPC. Even though the prelinker runs, it ignores most of the binaries on the system as they fail a basic sanity check looking for TEXTREL. It appears most of the executables on qemuppc machine are linked without pic, but I'm not sure if this indicates a problem with the compiler, configuration or something else. If we can fix this, and get everything (within reason) building with pic, the prelinker will start to prelink PPC binaries and -should- improve load performance. --Mark