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dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 243

[SOLVED] Weird files in arm-none-eabi-gcc package

Inspired by this topic out of curiosity I decided to check my system with pacman -Qkk and found that some files from arm-none-eabi-gcc 13.2.0-2 package are not readable by normal user because of Permission denied.
Indeed some directories in the official package have drwx------ permissions, which is strange for a compiler.

I built arm-none-eabi-gcc from PKGBUILD and those directories are absent in custom-built package.

Here is the list of files present in official package and absent in custom-built one: http://0x0.st/Xox2.txt

What those files are? file doesn't recognize their format. For me they look like dumps of ELF debug sections, but I'm not sure. I suspect differences between my and packager's build environment, probably a compiler cache or something like that. If so, why they are in the package and with root-only access?
Sorry for paranoid-like post, just want to make sure those files are not a part of some malware.

Last edited by dimich (2024-04-21 18:34:03)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,469

Re: [SOLVED] Weird files in arm-none-eabi-gcc package

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/1

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 243

Re: [SOLVED] Weird files in arm-none-eabi-gcc package

Thanks. I somehow missed the bugreport. Let's wait for arm-none-eabi-gcc to be rebuilt with binutils-2.42.
Marking as solved.