On Thu, 2022-02-03 at 10:09 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Richard W. M. Jones: > > > Thinking about this a bit more, the implementation of this feature > > simply seems to be wrong. RPM already has a final stage where it > > strips ELF files and builds debuginfo. Why wasn't the addition of > > package notes done there? > > The package notes are in an allocatable section, to be mapped at run > time, so that they end up in core files. As far as I know, it's not > reliably possible to add such data to an ELF file after the final > (non-relocatable) link. > > We would have to pre-allocate some fixed space and fill it in later. > > Cleaner approaches are possible if we teach the core dumper how to copy > select data from non-allocated sections. I think we would then need > just a placeholder program header.
While it is nice to discuss future options, do we have a way to fix FTBFS's in rawhide _now_ ? My time is limited and I want to upgrade one of my packages and this is blocking me. Is opening a FESCO ticket the only way ? Simo. -- Simo Sorce RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat, Inc _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
