On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 11:36 +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > > I think Fedora should be able to ask its tool chain to insert the
> > > extra data rather than hacking it in after the fact.
> 
> I'll just note that another way to insert data into a linked binary
> is to use a linker script fragment referenced from the command line.
> I doubt that this would be any better than creating a "magic .o" file,
> but it is worth knowing.

That might be an interesting alternative. Could you use this for e.g.
inserting a .comment section fragment with an unique (version) string?
That would be stripped away, but should still count for the build-id
hash calculation.

Cheers,

Mark
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