dev-manual: Add a note about prelink changing prebuild binaries

Submitted by Richard Purdie on Oct. 28, 2020, 11:49 a.m. | Patch ID: 177621

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Message ID 20201028114918.176888-1-richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org
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Richard Purdie Oct. 28, 2020, 11:49 a.m. 
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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 documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.rst
index 0630040e6..27aacde60 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.rst
@@ -2602,6 +2602,13 @@  doing the following:
    where you have installed them and whether those files are in
    different locations than the defaults.
 
+.. note::
+
+  If image prelinking is enabled (e.g. "image-prelink" is in :term:`USER_CLASSES`
+  which it is by default), prelink will change the binaries in the generated images
+  and this often catches people out. Remove that class to ensure binaries are
+  preserved exactly if that is necessary.
+
 Following Recipe Style Guidelines
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