[BitPim-devel] bitpim binary and prelink

[Robert H. <han...@gm...>]

I recently ran into the issue with prelink trashing the bitpim binary 
which is described in the FAQ:

http://www.bitpim.org/help/trouble-linux-issues.htm

This problem was reported to Fedora here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415551

and was marked as NOTABUG:

"If they concatenate ELF binaries (or shared libraries) with arbitrary 
data after it, without putting that at least into unallocated sections, 
then they are terminally broken.  From a quick check of the bitpim 
binary in the i386.rpm on their website that's what they are doing.
You can work around their bugs by adding /etc/prelink.conf.d/bitpim.conf
etc. snippets which will blacklist those binaries, but really the apps 
should be fixed not to do this.  Please report it to them and let them 
fix this."

I tend to think he has a point, what bitpim is doing is really rather 
bizarre and this is quite a land mine when running it on most modern 
distributions.. I would think there must be a better way to handle this?