[cooker] elfutils required by RPM

TPG · September 25, 2019, 8:52am

Hi,

do rpm-build really needs to pull elfutils ?

Looks like elfutils is pulled because of eu-strip

rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/d78ecb903ab1cecb7c465b06aab16c7e3fb0f20a/scripts/find-debuginfo.sh#L257


  local r=
  $strip_r && r=--reloc-debug-sections
  $strip_g && case "$(file -bi "$2")" in
  application/x-sharedlib*) g=-g ;;
  application/x-executable*) g=-g ;;
  application/x-pie-executable*) g=-g ;;
  esac
  $strip_glibs && case "$(file -bi "$2")" in
    application/x-sharedlib*) g=-g ;;
  esac
  eu-strip --remove-comment $r $g ${keep_remove_args} -f "$1" "$2" || exit
  chmod 444 "$1" || exit
}


add_minidebug()
{
  local debuginfo="$1"
  local binary="$2"


  local dynsyms=`mktemp`
  local funcsyms=`mktemp`

According to our builds a find-debuginfo.sh is not called with -r
option so eu-strip is never used.
Can we drop this require from rpm-build ?

ngompa · September 25, 2019, 11:22am

Yes, it's required because the debuginfo code is included in
rpm-build. No, we're not dropping the dependency.

TPG · September 25, 2019, 4:55pm

Why if it not used at all ?