[maemo-developers] Prelinking and GNU Hashstyle on maemo?

[From: Ben Martin]

Hi,
  I notice that back in the maemo 3.x days there was a prelink package
for maemo [1]. Was this deprecated in favour of another approach?

  I have recently ported libferris [3] to maemo chinook. I still have to
perform integration into the maemo environment and hildon customization
and other perks of a port but the code is deb'ed, installable and
console tools run.

  Libferris benefits greatly by prelinking, on a desktop machine an
unprelinked ferrisls on a small directory might spend more than half its
runtime in the dynamic linker. So prelinking helps greatly for console
use and fork()/exec() patterns in GUI applications.

  I have tried taking prelink from various versions of debian but am
unable to get it and libelf to be happy on my n810. 

  Has anyone played with using the GNU hashstyle [2] with the n810 or
other methods to speed up dynamic linking? 

[1] http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/3.2/content_changes.html
[2] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Hashstyle
[3] http://witme.sourceforge.net/libferris.web/

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