On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 7:32 AM Luca Boccassi <bluca(a)debian.org> wrote:
> * Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:
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> The general case of any statically linked code. It could be libgcc,
> startup files, the non-shared bits of glibc, static-only libraries, or
> header-only C++ libraries.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
This would be indeed useful, but quite harder to do automagically I think? Is there
rpmbuild magic that figures out that a static dependency is being used? If so, new fields
could be used in the note section of the ELF object, eg: "staticLibfooName",
"staticLibfooVersion", when the elf object is assembled.
In the Debian world we have the Built-Using annotation that goes in the package metadata,
I guess I'd use that as a source of info - but it does rely on the maintainer doing
the manual annotation (for some languages like golang iirc it's done automatically,
but we don't have anything for C/C++ iirc).
We don't currently have this in the RPMs themselves, but our build
system automatically captures the build environment (including all the
packages) so that they could be replayed in the future if we wanted
to. However, that's specific to the Koji build system.
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