From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9789 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2010 18:53:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 9776 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Nov 2010 18:53:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.windriver.com (HELO mail.windriver.com) (147.11.1.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:53:23 +0000 Received: from ALA-MAIL03.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-mail03 [147.11.57.144]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oA5IrL1t009783 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:53:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ala-mail06.corp.ad.wrs.com ([147.11.57.147]) by ALA-MAIL03.corp.ad.wrs.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:53:21 -0700 Received: from Macintosh-5.local ([172.25.36.228]) by ala-mail06.corp.ad.wrs.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:53:21 -0700 Message-ID: <4CD452A0.9090502@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:53:00 -0000 From: Mark Hatle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: prelink@sourceware.org Subject: Cross prelink Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact prelink-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: prelink-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-q4/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 As part of the recently announced Yocto Project , a cross-prelinker project was announced. The goal of this project is simply to centralize the cross-prelinker work that has existed for some time, but not found a home. I have been working on putting together the various cross prelink patches that have been created/posted over the past 7 years or so. These patches were original written by MontaVista Software, Wind River Systems, and Code Sourcery. (The ChangeLog.cross attempts to capture the history as much as was possible.) The sources are based on imports from the prelink SVN tree and the patches mentioned above. The cross_prelink branch is top of tree. (Master is simply the import of the SVN tree.) The primary difference between the master SVN tree, and the cross-prelink project tree is the addition of a cross run-time linker (emulator) that can work in a cross-development environment. This run-time linker will go through many of the same steps as ld.so/ldd normally would, but is external of the filesystem and libc being linked. (Also has the side effect of looking like ldd output so you now have a way to see what ldd would report on the target architecture without having to boot it.) Question -- is there any interest in cleaning up this work and it being included into the master prelink SVN tree? If so, any suggestions or guidelines for submission? --Mark