On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 11:36 +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
I think Fedora should be able to ask its tool chain to insert the extra data rather than hacking it in after the fact.
I'll just note that another way to insert data into a linked binary is to use a linker script fragment referenced from the command line. I doubt that this would be any better than creating a "magic .o" file, but it is worth knowing.
That might be an interesting alternative. Could you use this for e.g. inserting a .comment section fragment with an unique (version) string? That would be stripped away, but should still count for the build-id hash calculation.
Cheers,
Mark
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