find-debuginfo.sh
Roland McGrath
roland at redhat.com
Wed Aug 8 20:17:09 UTC 2007
> This whole new debuginfo.sh thing, could be a good thing. Roland, have
> you also taken cross-building into account?
Not especially. I changed a few things about find-debuginfo.sh, but
anything I did not address specifically, I was not intending to change.
The changes are the build-id magic, smart handling of hard links and
symlinks, and generating all the correct %dir lines. Changes for other
purposes are separate from this effort, though I am happy to help with
unrelated work on the script.
> Basicly when building a cross development embedded toolchain, we do not want
> find-debuginfo and the brp-XXXX scripts to touch any non native files.
I'm not sure there are real good ways to detect that correctly. It would
be some kludge and probably error-prone. I'm a little more inclined just
to provide an easy way to give a list of files to exclude from consideration.
Then these packages would still need a special case, rather than expecting
insanely smart automagic behavior just for them. But it would be a
reasonably clean special case.
> However when doing a Fedora -> Fedora cross, debuginfo should be normally
> generated but using the cross versions of strip and friends, so not use strip
> but for example arm-redhat-linux-strip
eu-strip and the other elfutils tools are already inherently cross-friendly.
find-debuginfo.sh uses only eu-strip. The various brp-* scripts do all
sorts of nonsense and could probably use a general cleanup.
Thanks,
Roland
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