[Mageia-dev] executable libraries

Fri Mar 2 19:53:06 CET 2012

Den 23:05 1. mars 2012 skrev Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> følgende:
+> 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.
+If using the internal dependency generator, rpm won't generate dependencies for
+the library either btw.
+
+I've just implemented a rpmlint shared-lib-not-executable check :
+http://svn.mandriva.com/viewvc/packages/cooker/rpmlint/current/SOURCES/rpmlint-1.4-shared-lib-not-executable.patch?view=log
+
+--
+Regards,
+Per Øyvind
+