[Mageia-dev] executable libraries

Thu Mar 1 23:05:35 CET 2012

02.03.2012 00:03, Maarten Vanraes kirjoitti:
+> Op donderdag 01 maart 2012 22:54:59 schreef Anssi Hannula:
+>> 01.03.2012 23:36, Pascal Terjan kirjoitti:
+>>> I would say it doesn't matter and would not spend any time on it
+>>
+>> /usr/lib/rpm/mageia/find-debuginfo.sh:
+>>
+>> # Strip ELF binaries
+>> find "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" ! -path "${debugdir}/*.debug" -type f \
+>>                      \( -perm -0100 -or -perm -0010 -or -perm -0001 \) \
+>>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+>>                      -print |
+>> file -N -f - | sed -n -e 's/^\(.*\):[   ]*.*ELF.*, not stripped/\1/p' |
+>> xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c '%h %D_%i %n' |
+>> while read nlinks inum f; do
+>>
+>>
+>> Looks like debug packages and/or stripping won't work for non-executable
+>> shared libraries.
+> 
+> hmm, there's a '!' there, so isn't it reverse then?
+
+It reverses the -path rule only.
+
+> but if this only works with executable libraries, (kind of weird imho), there 
+> are at least 34 libraries on my system not marked as executable...
+> 
+> does this mean debug info fails for these?
+
+I'm not immediately sure (I never remember how the debug/stripping stuff
+works exactly), but I think either a) debug symbols extraction and thus
+-debug packaging, b) stripping, or c) both will fail with non-executable
+shared libs.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+