Bug#604047: warning: collect info objdump-info about package PACKAGE failed
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> objdump -T --headers --private-headers looks the same as well in both
> cases (but it still exits 1 in experimental). Removing the -T will make
> it succeed and I found the following entry in the upstream changelog:
> 2010-10-05 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
> [...]
> * objdump.c (free_only_list): Formatting.
> (slurp_dynamic_symtab): Non-zero exit status for "not a dynamic
> object".
> [...]
> (main): Return non-zero exit status on bad options.
> [...]
> I guess objdump has become a bit more strict with its exit codes :)
Ideally we'd finish the work required to just switch to readelf. I think
last time we looked at that we concluded we could get all of the same
information. objdump is theoretically superior in that it can also handle
non-ELF binaries, but it seems unlikely to me that Debian is ever going to
have a non-ELF architecture. And IIRC readelf doesn't care about
differing word sizes, architectures, and so forth the way that objdump
tends to.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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