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Signatures in executable, to help find source version number #330

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Some binary builds are being made without any inclusion of version information.
Ex: the spanish Wiz port, and a build on Veket Linux (a chinese variant of
Puppy Linux, http://www.seadvd.com/redirect.php?tid=136772&goto=lastpost)
It can make it difficult to determine the approximative source version number.

Maybe we should use SCCS markings: strings starting with the magic value
"@(#)", compiled into the executable. The command 'what', on Linux
(http://linux.die.net/man/1/what), directly locates these strings in any
binary file. So you can examine even a binary that wasn't compiled for your
platform. If 'what' is not available, you can use a binary editor.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by yrizoud on 23 Mar 2010 at 11:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by pulkoma...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2010 at 9:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by pulkoma...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2010 at 9:47