Re: ld option --build-id=none

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:30:22PM -0200, Manoel Rebelo Abranches wrote:
> Its not necessary when creating the .o object files, only when linking
> then to create the final kern.elf.
> That is done changing the variable  kernel_elf_LDFLAGS in
> conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk.
> 
> but I dont know how to use the grub_cv_prog_ld_build_id_none variable in
> aclocal.m4 to change kernelelf_LDFLAGS in the conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rm
> file.

Look in genmk.rb.  The "class Image" stanza adds a "-R .note.gnu.build-id"
to objcopy, which gets rid of the build-id for *.img files on i386-pc.

For ELF images, I think you need something similar in "class Program".

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