[linux-morello-distros] Re: [PATCH 12/17] Add elf patcher

On 04/01/2023 12:02, Pawel Zalewski wrote:

You shouldn't need this any more. This tool was written at a time when
the released toolchain did not know about the new ELF flag yet, and we
needed something to fill the gap. The LLVM release you are using does
add this flag itself as appropriate (i.e. when building purecap
binaries).

You are right, I have just checked this with readelf, again thank you for updating me. I shall remove the patcher in V2.

I think that the busybox 1.5 makefile is still using the patcher as well: https://git.morello-project.org/morello/morello-busybox/-/blob/morello-relea...

That's correct, I think it was kept for backwards-compatibility with older toolchains. The patcher is a no-op if the flag is already there so it doesn't hurt either, but for new stacks like this one we can do without it.

Kevin