Questions about wine

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 08:31:12AM +0100, Ben Walton wrote
> On Jul 21, 2013 6:40 AM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> >   I'm looking at getting wine going for a Windows-only app.  I posted
> > some questions on the Gentoo forum, but no response.  Is anybody here
> > familiar with wine?
> >
> > 1) The latest Gentoo ebuild wine-1.6_rc4 (unstable) apparently should
> > be "prelinked".  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml talks
> > about a cron job to run prelink every so often, which seems like the
> > wrong approach.  Wouldn't it make more sense to run it right after
> > installing a program or doing any updates?  Are there any problems with
> > running prelink on all programs?
> 
> The trick is that one library links to another and as those change or get
> updated the prelinking you did previously is invalidated. Prelinking is at
> the executable level so an updated SSL library means that anything which
> eventually uses it needs to be re-prelinked.

  That was my impression, too.  The only time I expect libraries to
change is when I "emerge" (Gentoo equivalant of "apt-get") to install a
new program, or update an existing one.  A cron job doesn't make sense...

1) When I install/update a library, I want the pre-linking to be updated
*NOW*, not whenever the cron job gets around to it.

2) Let's assume I go 3 or 4 weeks between updates.  What's the point of
running prelink every 48 hours or so?  Executables and libraries should
not be changing (I hope).

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