On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:47:23PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Saturday, 01 March 2008 at 18:01, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > [...] > > And: > > > > - certain binaries should not be stripped > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435559 > > I assume that using ocamlc -custom is absolutely necessary there. > My guess is this is either a bug in strip (stripping what it shouldn't) > or in ocamlc (generating invalid ELF objects). It's kind of a gross bug in ocamlc. It appends the bytecode to the end of the executable and writes a trailer after that, and at runtime it reads its own bytecode from /proc/self/exe. Yuck! Luckily it only does this with the -custom option, and it turns out that such binaries are quite rare. I only found a problem in 2 out of 68 OCaml-built binaries that we ship in Fedora. There's some background and commentary from upstream in the Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256900 Anyhow we ought to ship native code versions of everything we possibly can. It's silly shipping slow old bytecode when you've got a native code compiler that's almost as fast as C. Maybe this should be another packaging guideline? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
