[PATCH] Skip dynamic relocations

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Thu Mar 26 14:26:05 UTC 2015


On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 05:42 -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> I assume all those test binaries in elfutils which elflint is run on don't have
> dynamic relocations.

Some do. See the tests/run-elflint-*.sh which do pass --gnu-ld when
necessary.

> Given a binary, how do you know if --gnu-ld should be passed to elflint?

If it reports errors for issues that are listed under known bugs with
GNU ld https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/wiki/ElflintGNU then you might
want to pass --gnu-ld to make sure it isn't a known issue.

Cheers,

Mark


More information about the elfutils-devel mailing list