Per the forums: "Hmmm... Are you guys sure you have done it right? These are the steps: 1. emerge prelink 2. add 'prelink' to your USE flags in /etc/make.conf 3. emrge any packages that you want to be prelinked. 4. run prelink with flasg as specified in the docs. Just emerging prelink and running it will not improve load times. The applications need to be recompiled with the -fPIC (Position Independent Code) flag in order to be pre-linkable. Erik" I read the documentation, and I wondered why I had not seen any improvements in speed. The adding of the prelink USE flag and then running prelink was not listed in the document. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Follow the prelink documentation 2. Prelink does nothing. 3. Actual Results: Prelink did not speed up any of my applications. Expected Results: It should of sped up some applications.
prelink is not an USE flag ... i dont know where that came from ...
Running prelink is on the document (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml#doc_chap3_sect1) You also don't need to add anything anywhere. Information about the -fPIC is in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml#doc_chap4_sect1. It is automatically used, and if it isn't, then a bugreport should be made against that library with (if possible) a patch to automatically use -fPIC. I'm marking this one as INVALID; ofcourse if you have further questions you can still ask them :)
