On 14/11/2025 3:40 pm, Oleksii Kurochko wrote:
>
>
> On 11/13/25 4:43 PM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>> From: Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]>
>>
>> For xen.gz file we strip all symbols and have an additional
>> xen-syms.efi file version with all symbols.
>> Make xen.efi more coherent stripping all symbols too.
>> xen-syms.efi can be used for debugging.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]>
> Release-Acked-By: Oleksii Kurochko <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks.

Thanks.  Unfortunately CI says no.

Ubuntu's 20.04, 18.04 and 16.04 all fail: 
https://gitlab.com/xen-project/hardware/xen-staging/-/pipelines/2159622869

>From 16.04:

2025-11-14T18:01:51.192964Z 01O strip xen-syms.efi -o xen.efi
2025-11-14T18:01:51.198151Z 01O strip:xen-syms.efi[.init]: relocation count is 
negative: File truncated
2025-11-14T18:01:51.198166Z 01O strip: xen.efi: Failed to read debug data 
section
2025-11-14T18:01:51.198169Z 01O strip:xen.efi: error copying private BFD data: 
File truncated
2025-11-14T18:01:51.198932Z 01O arch/x86/Makefile:207: recipe for target 
'xen.efi' failed
2025-11-14T18:01:51.198937Z 01O make[3]: *** [xen.efi] Error 1
2025-11-14T18:01:51.199616Z 01O build.mk:90: recipe for target 'xen' failed
2025-11-14T18:01:51.199619Z 01O make[2]: *** [xen] Error 2
2025-11-14T18:01:51.200402Z 01O Makefile:600: recipe for target 'xen' failed
2025-11-14T18:01:51.200409Z 01O make[1]: *** [xen] Error 2


I find it hard to believe that the relocation count is really negative,
and given that newer binuitls works, I expect this is a binutils bug.

Nevertheless, we need some workaround.  Given that the previous
behaviour was not to strip, I think we can reuse that for broken toolchains?

~Andrew

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