Re: [PATCH] rpm: update to 4.14.0

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 11/7/17 8:53 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 11/06/2017 06:54 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> You would need to interpret the dwarf symbols and find all of the referenced
>> files.  I can certainly be done with the libelf (libdwarf?), but I don't know if
>> it can be done with binutils or elfutils directly.  They may not have the
>> necessary translation to be able to assembly the pieces.
>>
>> (A lot of the filenames are listed related to a directory.. and the entries are
>> stored in different places and have to be assembled to get a similar output to
>> what debugedit gave us.)
>>
>> Writing a small standalone tool to give us this information may be very useful
>> to us though -- and would let us break the 'rpm' dependency for deb/ipkg
>> builds.. (probably)
> 
> 'readelf -wL <binary>' looks promising. I think we can simply process 
> its output from package.class (yes, a bit brittle, but easier than 
> writing a separate tool).

Yes, it looks like this has everything needed to identify the matching sources.

It will definitely have to be processed a bit, but it's all there.  (Only
concern is the processing may take significantly longer then debugedit used to..
but we won't know until we try.)

--Mark

> Alex
>