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Re: build id computation
Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> writes:
> In my opinion what counts is what people are doing and saying, reads .text and
> .data. I'm not even convinced if it is important where they say it, reads
> directory or file name.
It seems clear that different people have different desires for the
build ID. We can not write a single checksum generation routine which
will support everything that people want to do. I think we need to
provide other tools--e.g., objcopy--which permit setting the build ID
as desired.
Ian