[Mageia-dev] executable libraries

Fri Mar 2 21:29:05 CET 2012

02.03.2012 21:57, Maarten Vanraes kirjoitti:
+> 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?
+
+I guess it is there just to speed up the process, otherwise it would
+have to run 'file' for every file in the package (and many packages have
+lots of files).
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+