Re: [PATCH] Fix for linker build ID in Fedora 8

[Lubomir Kundrak]

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 23:26 +0100, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the patch!
> 
> On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 22:07 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Hello!
> > Here's an alternate patch for the issue that appeared on Fedora 8.  The
> > linker adds a "build ID" (.not.gnu.build-id) by default.  That section
> > makes objcopy create output files about 128M long when asked to use
> > binary format.  Needless to say, they are not suitable as grub images.

> I attach the patch I use. The first hunk is basically the same as yours,
> the second one is self-explanatory.

Actually, the first hunk should better look like this:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00187.html

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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)