Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 09:57:41 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing GNU from kernel Message-ID: <20001231095741.A284@whizkidtech.net> In-Reply-To: <20001230212924.H37215@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 09:29:24PM %2B0000 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001230113515.04ee97d0@localhost> <20001230122630.A247@whizkidtech.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20001230113515.04ee97d0@localhost> <20001230125703.A239@whizkidtech.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20001230131557.0476d800@localhost> <20001230212924.H37215@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 09:29:24PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>For the executables, you just need a patch like this to install(1), I
>think.
The ideal solution would probably be not to patch our makefiles nor
install but gcc/gas so it does not write the version in the output
to start with. Alas, that is easier said than done: I have been wading
through gcc source code this morning, and found the variable
"version_string" which contains the string, but could not find the
place where it prints it to the object file.
As for the other string ("01.01") that it outputs to every object file,
and that even stripping .comment does not remove, I have not found it
at all, it is probably created dynamically with sprintf or printf or
fprintf, or something like that somewhere.
If anyone is more familiar with the inner workings of gcc and knows
where this extra output is generated, please speak up.
It would be sort of poetic to remove that section straight out of gcc:
Under the terms of GNU we can modify the source code any way we want. :)
Cheers,
Adam
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