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| author | Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com> | 2017-04-19 14:14:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com> | 2017-04-19 14:33:33 (GMT) |
| commit | bfc3db32d26cbf6d1aa96aa0fd9a82aa5576ba17 (patch) | |
| tree | 69c92b1905041420589c26750e369b747a6e4c35 /src/patchelf.cc | |
| parent | e44c318b37050cad5f676505cc1cd9efaecf18c4 (diff) | |
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Improve error message when run on statically linked binaries
If .dynamic, .dynstr or .interp sections aren't found, give an extra hint
to the user that the input file is statically linked.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/patchelf.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/patchelf.cc | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/patchelf.cc b/src/patchelf.cc index bfd9cc1..6363395 100644 --- a/src/patchelf.cc +++ b/src/patchelf.cc @@ -557,8 +557,12 @@ template<ElfFileParams> Elf_Shdr & ElfFile<ElfFileParamNames>::findSection(const SectionName & sectionName) { Elf_Shdr * shdr = findSection2(sectionName); - if (!shdr) - error("cannot find section '" + sectionName + "'"); + if (!shdr) { + std::string extraMsg = ""; + if (sectionName == ".interp" || sectionName == ".dynamic" || sectionName == ".dynstr") + extraMsg = ". The input file is most likely statically linked"; + error("cannot find section '" + sectionName + "'" + extraMsg); + } return *shdr; } |