[pacman-dev] Maybe some problems with pacman-git

[Dan McGee]

On Jan 8, 2008 9:34 AM, Karolina Lindqvist
<karolina.lindqvist at kramnet.se> wrote:
> tisdag 08 januari 2008 skrev Dan McGee:
>
> > These are the two issues I can see being important. As Xavier said,
> > the --asroot option probably hasn't been tested much, so maybe we
> > should look into this. If I get a chance I'll be sure to check this
> > out before I release tonight. Of course I'd appreciate anyone else
> > looking into it as well.
>
> One issue got left out by mistake I think.
>
> I could not get pacman to work properly building klibc, since it stripped all
> the symbols from /usr/lib/klibc/lib/libc.so
> I don't know why the old pacman did not do this, since I could not find
> anything different in logic. Maybe there is some other mechanism that I did
> not find?
> So just check that klibc builds without stripping  /usr/lib/klibc/lib/libc.so,
> or install a patch similar to this.
>
> For some reason "file -biz /usr/lib/klibc/lib/libc.so" gives
> application/x-executable and not application/x-sharedlib, and gets its
> symbols stripped. That in turn will make build of klibc-* packets fail.
>
>
> @@ -751,7 +765,11 @@
>                                 *application/x-sharedlib*)  # Libraries
>                                         /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$file";;
>                                 *application/x-executable*) # Binaries
> -                                       /usr/bin/strip "$file";;
> +                                   if [ "${file/.so/}" = "${file}" ]; then
> +                                       /usr/bin/strip "$file";
> +                                   else
> +                                       /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$file";
> +                                   fi;;
>                         esac
>                 done
>         fi

Hmm, interesting issue here. Anyone know more about this? In 3.0.6 we
just used file extensions to strip so we didn't run into the above
problem. [1]

You can't run ldd on klibc either. Unlike /lib/libc.so.6 (glibc), this
doesn't even link in ld-linux.so and linux-gate.so. This is a very
corner case, and the above patch makes the code a bit sloppy looking,
but I don't see many alternatives.

-Dan

[1] http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=blob;f=scripts/makepkg;h=c192855f97d9c53dc4bbd431fb265113447d796d;hb=a06d91f7f9b2e895c5dcfff314632919e417e864#l961