[Mageia-dev] executable libraries

[Anssi Hannula]

02.03.2012 21:57, Maarten Vanraes kirjoitti:
> Op vrijdag 02 maart 2012 15:22:23 schreef Anssi Hannula:
>> 02.03.2012 00:17, Maarten Vanraes kirjoitti:
>>> Op donderdag 01 maart 2012 23:05:35 schreef Anssi Hannula:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> does this mean debug info fails for these?
>>>>
>>>> I'm not immediately sure (I never remember how the debug/stripping stuff
>>>> works exactly), but I think either a) debug symbols extraction and thus
>>>> -debug packaging, b) stripping, or c) both will fail with non-executable
>>>> shared libs.
>>>
>>> in that case i guess we would need a policy or bs check to make sure we
>>> don't fail some libraries debug and strip
>>
>> Possibly.
>>
>> Interestingly, Debian policy disallows executable permission on shared
>> libs:
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-ru
>> ntime
>>
>> "Shared libraries should not be installed executable, since the dynamic
>> linker does not require this and trying to execute a shared library
>> usually results in a core dump."
> 
> which is sort of strange, since libc is actually executable by design.
> 
> i see where they are coming from
> 
> but i guess the first part of this is, why is there a find with executable 
> restrictions for the code relating to stripped binaries and debug?
> 
> is it because it's also used for real executables?

I guess it is there just to speed up the process, otherwise it would
have to run 'file' for every file in the package (and many packages have
lots of files).

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Anssi Hannula