[Mageia-dev] executable libraries

Fri Mar 2 20:57:21 CET 2012

Op vrijdag 02 maart 2012 15:22:23 schreef Anssi Hannula:
+> 02.03.2012 00:17, Maarten Vanraes kirjoitti:
+> > Op donderdag 01 maart 2012 23:05:35 schreef Anssi Hannula:
+> > [...]
+> > 
+> >>> 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.
+> > 
+> > in that case i guess we would need a policy or bs check to make sure we
+> > don't fail some libraries debug and strip
+> 
+> Possibly.
+> 
+> Interestingly, Debian policy disallows executable permission on shared
+> libs:
+> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-ru
+> ntime
+> 
+> "Shared libraries should not be installed executable, since the dynamic
+> linker does not require this and trying to execute a shared library
+> usually results in a core dump."
+
+which is sort of strange, since libc is actually executable by design.
+
+i see where they are coming from
+
+but i guess the first part of this is, why is there a find with executable 
+restrictions for the code relating to stripped binaries and debug?
+
+is it because it's also used for real executables?
+