Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo · @acmel
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Thorsten Leemhuis (2/4) · @knurd42
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How to make life hard for package maintainers in :

Just provide a patch instead of directly releasing a new version of foo, when it starts to misbehave with a newly released version of bar, which leads to build errors in foobar.

That's bad, as package maintainers of several distros now need to discover and apply the patch (& later revert) it.

foo in this case is : src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dwa
bar was 2.40
foobar is : koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ge

#linux #distributions #pahole #binutils #kernel

Last updated 2 years ago

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo · @acmel
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pahole is finally supporting .dwz style DWARF, I.e. DW_TAG_imported_unit + DW_FORM_GNU_alt_ref debug information:

git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/p

Still points to polish, but light at the end of the tunnel seems to be in sight.

Switching to work on diff codebases is challenging, this is a world with too many distractions, only piling up as you age and pile up more responsibilities.

I'll add an example to the commit log, based in the raison d'ĂȘtre: openvswitch.

#linux #pahole #elfutils #libdw #dwarf

Last updated 2 years ago