Rebuilding RHEL3 libc.so from source

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 18:03:58 EDT 2007


On 7/13/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
>   This strikes me as rather unlikely, but: I wonder if strip(1) is
> being built-in to the RPM packaging process, and thus leaving you with
> unstripped binaries under BUILD, but stripped binaries in the package.
>  I don't think so, but I can't say for sure that isn't what's going
> on.  You can use rpm2cpio(1) and cpio(1) to extract the plain old
> files from an RPM package to any given directory, and check them that
> way.

  Don't have time to hunt the past message, but I believe he showed
symbol information in both his versions of the file, and the installed
binary files from the distro.  What concerns me the most is that he
stated the symbols IN the files looked dramatically different.

-- 
-- Thomas


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