[lsb-discuss] LSB and SELinux
Dallman, John
jgd at ugs.com
Thu Nov 29 08:32:06 PST 2007
> Mats wrote:
> > Robert wrote
> >> John Dallman wrote:
> >> A first look at that seems to indicate that any shared library
> >> compiled entirely from C/C++ code with -fPIC (we use that because
> >> the libraries are big) and without a JIT should be OK from the
> >> textrelocs point of view?
> > Yes.
Fine. And now I've demonstrated to myself that it actually is so,
with the examples, and written it up in the platform's porting
notes, I'm throughly happy.
> >> I don't seem to have an up-to-date enough Linux running (SLES10)
> >> to have eu-readelf and the other tools that that page talks about.
> > Just use readelf, not sure what eu-readelf is either, but readelf
> > will give you the information.
> readelf comes from binutils, eu-readelf comes from elfutils,
> which contain Ulrich's reimplementation of a lot of the ELF
> code. The stuff in binutils is of, ummm, dubious quality but
> has to be carried because binutils has a target of working
> "everywhere", while elfutils is free to concentrate on just
> Linux. Not sure how widespread distro uptake of elfutils is -
> I just haven't checked; it's clearly there in Redhat/Fedora.
Thanks. We're strictly interested in enterprise distributions:
when you want to keep a build platform fairly stable for a couple
of years at a time, Fedora is not what's required.
--
John Dallman
Parasolid Porting Engineer
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