[OE-core] [PATCH] insane: Rationalise phdrs-based QA checks

[Phil Blundell]

On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 14:45 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 10/01/2012 10:29 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > Various different QA checks are based on essentially the same data from
> > the ELF program headers.  Calling objdump to extract it repeatedly is
> > inefficient, particularly if the shell is involved.  Instead, let's
> > cache the output from objdump inside the qa.elf object and allow it to
> > be reused by multiple tests.
> >
> > Also, using objdump instead of scanelf to check for bad RPATHs (in the
> > same way that the useless-rpaths check was doing already) allows the
> > dependency on pax-utils-native to be dropped.
> >
> This seems to be failing for a QemuArm build of world, specifically 
> lsbsetup, quilt, sysvinit, and foomatic-filters seems like its failing 
> on symlinks.

I wasn't able to complete a build of world successfully due to some
unrelated-looking breakage in xserver-xorg, but I did reproduce this
problem by building quilt by hand.  The attached patch fixes it for me.

thanks

p.

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