Bug#1059870: aboot: Please help testing dropping a.out.h support

2024-01-02 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 at 21:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 18:07 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > For cross building, as far as I can tell one needs to build the tool > > twice - once for the BUILD architecture and once for HOST > > architecture, use one during

Bug#1059870: aboot: Please help testing dropping a.out.h support

2024-01-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 18:07 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > For cross building, as far as I can tell one needs to build the tool > twice - once for the BUILD architecture and once for HOST > architecture, use one during the build and package the other one into > the deb. That's correct and I

Bug#1059870: aboot: Please help testing dropping a.out.h support

2024-01-02 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 at 17:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Dimitri! > > On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 17:37 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > a.out support has been dropped in upstream kernel. However a.out.h > > header is still being using by abootimg tool via objstrip.c. It has > >

Bug#1059870: aboot: Please help testing dropping a.out.h support

2024-01-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Dimitri! On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 17:37 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > a.out support has been dropped in upstream kernel. However a.out.h > header is still being using by abootimg tool via objstrip.c. It has > support for both a.out image types and ELF. I have blidly dropped > a.out.h

Bug#1059870: aboot: Please help testing dropping a.out.h support

2024-01-02 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Package: aboot Version: 1.0~pre20200212-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, a.out support has been dropped in upstream kernel. However a.out.h header is still being using by abootimg tool via objstrip.c. It has support for both a.out image types and ELF. I have blidly dropped a.out.h support