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Authored by: vogunaescht on Jun 11, '04 02:11:59PM

imageworx, you are confusing two different things. The hint is about symbolic links (do a "man ln" in the terminal). You're talking about programs, that need to be relinked (do a "man ld" in the terminal).



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Not the same thing
Authored by: imageworx on Jun 13, '04 04:37:51PM

Yes, you are right. I am confused about this. And to WHY I am getting re-link errors and HOW to fix this.

MAN LD gives nothing in the Terminal; MAN LN gives text on links Hard and symbolic. I guess you refer that my issue is with HARD links; these need re-linking.

Again, why are certain iApps not hard linked and what is simplest process to fix? If I type "link [filename]" in terminal, this will fix it?


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Authored by: Anonymous on Jun 13, '04 10:17:37PM

For filesystems that support links, hard links are simply copies of a file.

What you are having problems with has nothing to do with file system links of any kind. The kind of linking you are referring to is static or dynamic object-code linking. These are two totally different things.

That is, there is no such concept as a "hard link" in the context of object code linking.

In your case, the prebinding process is failing to prebind the dynamic links for a particular executable. The fact that the error message reports the executable needs to be relinked suggests that there is a problem that redo_prebinding cannot resolve.

I'm guessing that the APC Powerchute app was compiled and linked for a previous release of OS X, and a recent update has broken something. The Apple Dev pages have all kinds of suggestions on how to minimize this problem in code released for OS X.

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Authored by: imageworx on Jun 14, '04 09:59:24AM

Thanks. This clears it up a bit more. I'll check the dev papers.
But its ironic that I get this with iApps (iMovie, iCal...) and they are all up to date.

But since they work and not crash, I guess its not too serious...
(famous last words).

Cheers-

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