Prebinding comes to FreeBSD
The Daily Daemon News mentions that Matthew Dodd has implemented prebinding for FreeBSD. The description sounds a lot like Mac OS X’s prebinding. I’d be interested in knowing what the difference is between what he did and what Mac OS X does, and whether the same concept would be useful for Linux (and if it isn’t, why it isn’t).
Nicholas Riley Said,
May 27, 2003 @ 6:55 am
Similar things have existed for years on Linux - both pre-relocation and prelinking.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-08/msg00311.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-06/msg00113.html
http://objprelink.sf.net/
robert luciani Said,
November 10, 2003 @ 1:08 pm
prebinding is not what you are thinking of. freebsd does prelinking at compile time, like windows. it does not need a stupid tool to link programs afterwards.