On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 03:52:31PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Another idea is to add a -F (fingerprint) command-line option to
> every executable that dumps mail_version and build_info information.
> Some people may not be comfortable with egrep and such.
If we're to go to all the trouble, likely the "-F" approach seems to
make more sense.
On the other hand, with Debian builds where libglobal, ... are separate
shared libraries, do we fingerprint libglobal, or the calling executable?
(Do we call a function in the library or clone it into each executable).
Ebedding static variables into each executable unasks the question,
and we can also include similar statics in each library.
All this said, I doubt it is worth the effort. The existing "fingerprints"
are probably enough.
--
Viktor.
