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From: Austn English <austinenglish@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: prelink functionality needed for wine
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>Number:         152662
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [rtld] load libraries with address hint (cf. prelink)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 29 06:10:12 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Nov 29 14:10:10 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Austn English
>Release:        8.1-release
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Wine needs prelink, so that its dll's are loaded at the proper base address
(some security checks depend on this). However, prelink is not available on
FreeBSD (I gave a quick try at compiling, but it failed).

I filed a ports request (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=151190) but it was closed and I was told to file a kern request.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run `which prelink` :-)
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc: Austn English <austinenglish@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: kern/152662: prelink functionality needed for wine
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:51:01 +0100

 You can give libraries a specific base address (like executables) by
 linking them with the ld(1) --section-start flag. The next step would
 then be to teach the runtime loader to load libraries at that address.
>Unformatted:
