From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J2TmO-0007VC-Ms for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:45:48 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2TmM-0007Sk-TD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:45:47 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2TmI-0007N7-Rb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:45:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2TmI-0007Mm-J2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:45:42 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J2TmI-0002F9-BA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:45:42 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J2TmG-0003Yh-Qw; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:45:41 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J2TmA-0002JA-0g; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:45:34 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:45:34 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071212154534.GB8783@thorin> References: <1195873630.7449.8.camel@dv> <1196029564.26555.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1196072924.26555.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1196080540.13422.7.camel@dv> <1196081685.26555.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1196082387.14380.6.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1196082387.14380.6.camel@dv> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: Lubomir Kundrak Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix for linker build ID in Fedora 8 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:45:47 -0000 Is this fixed now? On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:06:27AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 13:54 +0100, Lubomir Kundrak wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 07:35 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > The objcopy test exists to detect certain breakage in objcopy. I'm not > > > sure that testing it in the condition that it only copies .text is > > > sufficient to find the original problem. Surely, that will need some > > > software archeology. The test comes from GRUB 1. Anyway, I'll rather > > > test objcopy under conditions close to those used in the build process. > > > > To be honest, I'm not completely sure either. > > OK, I understand that you also want the test to pass on native x86_64. > I'll try to find more information about the original objcopy problem and > make a fix that addresses both the build ID issue and the x86_64 issue. > > > > And what's the build ID for? Why do we want to keep it? > > > > It basically makes it possible to match an executable or library with > > its core dump and sources it was compiled for. The latter is achieved by > > placing the sources to build-specific directory. > > Fair enough. I've been helped by Fedora's debuginfo more than once. > > I understand it's OK to strip build ID from anything that is used in the > real boot (whether it's affected by the new objcopy bug or not), as we > want space saving and we cannot debug it in gdb. > > -- > Regards, > Pavel Roskin -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)