[GTALUG] How much do you know about how linux executes binaries?

Nicholas Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Wed Dec 11 16:55:00 EST 2019



On 12/11/19 4:47 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 01:46:04PM -0500, Nicholas Krause via talk wrote:
>> My first idea would be to echo $PATH and see if the path is messed up or
>> /etc/profile or other bash startup scripts are not screwed up. Not sure what
>> the errors were but that's the first place to start.
>>
>> If that's fine then /bin is a symlink from /usr/bin these days to something
>> in /usr/bin and I would less if my symlinks for /bin are now screwed up
>> and fix that. The real question through is how much of root is overwritten
>> in this case.
> Nothing at all was overwritten.  A lot was moved however to the wrong
> place.
>
I got your own answer. Were you the person me and Hugh were talking to
as maybe you were. If so on the GCC wiki during the holidays I'm going
to start writing up my ideas for multi-threading GCC. A lot of it will apply
to LLVM just in different  ways.

The linker way works correctly and off the top of my head I couldn't 
remember
the exact variable for it,

Nick



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