Prelink

• After Spectre/Meltdown, it’s probably a bad idea to use Prelink at all as it makes memory mapping attacks easier.
• PIE interferes with prelink

Resources

• http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/prelink.txt
• http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/OLD/prelink.txt
• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prelink
• https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1074192-start-0.html

Apparently there’s something new called prelink-cross:

• https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Cross-Prelink

• https://www.yoctoproject.org/software-item/cross-prelink/

• https://github.com/sjnewbury/prelink-cross/blob/master/README

• https://voidlinux.org/news/2019/02/cross-gobject.html

• cross-prelink can be used to cross compile gobject packages like GNOME, which we won’t need since we will be building everything as native from within glaucus