Adding package information to ELF objects
Adding package information to ELF objects
Posted Nov 4, 2021 18:36 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)Parent article: Adding package information to ELF objects
This looks like it'd be really useful in Gentoo. Right now all of this info is stored in the package database (a tree of flat files with no index) and it takes a linear scan of that to find out who owns a given library - which happens a lot due to the safety nets they've added over the years. Often the package manager overhead dwarfs the time spent actually compiling things.
