Re: Bug#649038: elfutils FTBFS on kfreebsd
On 13/11/2013 10:48, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> And ELFOSABI_LINUX describe ELF files which do use
> such GNU extensions. What is the convention on Debian/kfreebsd?
Well, we used to provide these features before ELFOSABI_LINUX became a
requirement for having them. Now we can't provide them anymore (sigh).
Fortunately this doesn't (yet) break any essential functionality.
> This one is mostly just used as a workaround to see whether ptrace
> correctly propagates a SIGSTOP on attach/detach. It can probably be
> ignored if ptrace "behaves".
>
> [...]
> That was a type BTW. Should have been auxv. It is sometimes possible to
> get at the AUXV information in a different way. If not available only
> some functionality is degraded.
Thanks for the details. Unortunately manpower is scarce, but it may be
useful for looking into this someday.
> Well, it doesn't do much harm. It just means you cannot easily
> introspect the kernel and kernel modules with elfutils/libdwfl. But that
> is not functionality many programs want/need anyway. If they do, then
> there are probably other issues they have to deal with that make them
> depend on the linux kernel anyway.
I recommend that route then ;-)
Thank you
--
Robert Millan
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