First, it's broken on CURRENT. Second, apparently it's unmaintained and it was dropped from most Linux distributions years ago. (Debian is a notable exception: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48878.) I'll note here that only emulators/wine-devel and emulators/wine-proton depend on sysutils/prelink, emulators/wine doesn't.
I plan on removing the prelink dependency from wine-devel around next week end, not the least since as you point out emulators/wine never has used this. (There is an explicit note in a commit in 2016.) Damjan, if you see this as a mistake, please advise. If you guys want to deprecate the prelink port or make an update, I can commit this on your behalf.
A commit references this bug: Author: gerald Date: Thu Dec 10 21:03:30 UTC 2020 New revision: 557459 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/557459 Log: Remove the dependency on sysutils/prelink which the emulators/wine port has never had to begin with from all I can tell. This brings this wine-devel port and the wine port closer in sync, and prelink is broken on -CURRENT among others. PR: 251686 Changes: head/emulators/wine-devel/Makefile
Should this be closed now?
(In reply to Gleb Popov from comment #3) Not until sysutils/prelink either fixed or dead. Preferably latter. Upstream Wine is moving towards compiling as many components as possible into PE executables, so even if prelink still does something it will be useless very soon (see bug 237213).
(In reply to Alex S from comment #4) * is
A commit references this bug: Author: arrowd Date: Wed Feb 10 13:18:30 UTC 2021 New revision: 564856 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/564856 Log: sysutils/prelink: Mark DEPRECATED. PR: 251686 Reported by: Alex S <iwtcex@gmail.com> Approved by: damjan.jov@gmail.com (maintainer timeout) Changes: head/sysutils/prelink/Makefile
Expired port removed.