Loïc Minier <l...@dooz.org> writes: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> - readelf is tiny and works for all ELF targets. >> By contrast, multi-target objdump is large and its Debian package >> only supports the targets that were considered worth the trouble >> when it was last built. > I guess you mean binutils-multiarch here; I submitted a patch in Debian > #578365 to use a cross-objdump when cross-building. I expect objdump > or cross-objdump should support the binaries which you're about to ship > in a .deb. The only other case I can think of is when a package's > build calls a non-default (cross-)compiler to generate a specific file, > e.g. a firmware, in which case it might not be ELF at all. For Lintian purposes, we've also found readelf to just generally be a much nicer tool. We have a lot of logic right now to patch around various problems with objdump, such as inferior error reporting, and I hope to eventually replace all that code with readelf, which always works the way that I expect it to work. This isn't a very persuasive argument for changing code that already works, of course, but if you do extensive work around the code that uses objdump, you may want to take a look at readelf. It's quite nice. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sk6h3iqd....@windlord.stanford.edu
