Re: Migrating to LLVM binutils tools (ar, nm, addr2line, etc.)

On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 09:09:40PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 09:11, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > For most cases, when elftc-ar fails, it does not set the exitcode to
> > non-zero. This tricks the ports tree to continue to build a port where
> > elftc-ar actually errored.
> 
> Thanks for the notice - I didn't see this email until now, but saw the
> related discussion on HardenedBSD's IRC channel this morning.
> 
> Note that FreeBSD ar is different from ELF Tool Chain's ar; the latter
> is a fork of FreeBSDs, and there are some distinct bug fixes or
> improvements in each version that are not present in the other. Here
> FreeBSD's ar is buggy, and llvm-ar, GNU ar, and ELF Tool Chain's ar
> all return a non-zero exit code.
> 
> Code review with fix for FreeBSD's ar: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31402
> Exp-run request: https://bugs.freebsd.org/257599

I was mistaken about which ar was errant. I apologize. Thank you
very much for the clarification.

Thanks again,

-- 
Shawn Webb
Cofounder / Security Engineer
HardenedBSD

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