Re: wtf ... Something strips installed binaries???

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:46:56PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Likely the binary has just some data
> appended to it and the authors haven't bothered to put it into a proper
> ELF non-allocated section instead, obviously both stripping and prelinking
> won't preserve randomly inserted data somewhere outside of the ELF sections.
> Both strip and prelink expect ELF objects, not some ad-hoc ELF plus
> something format.

NekoVM which I'm packaging at the moment[1][2] does this with the Neko
bytecode.

I looked at the ELF format and it's actually way more difficult than I
imagined to work out if a file has 'stuff' appended to it.  In fact I
don't think it's possible to distinguish this case from normal spare
bytes at the end.  So instead I'll raise this as a bug with NekoVM and
see if they can just use a normal note section.  (Probably not though,
because they're mostly Windows programmers).

Rich.

[1] http://www.nekovm.org/
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460779

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