Re: GCC plugins packaging (for AFL++)

Florian Weimer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Richard W. M. Jones:

> Apparently GCC plugins depend on the exact GCC major.minor.release
> version (rather than, say, just the major version as with Clang).  Or
> AFL *thinks* it needs to depend on the exact version, although you
> could set an environment variable to skip the check, see:
>
>   https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/blob/edaf3ad04d64185cae856c75ca4676cbb14a35b5/instrumentation/afl-gcc-pass.so.cc#L621
>
> Do GCC plugins really depend on the exact major.minor.release of GCC?

They do.  We rebuild the annobin plugin each time we update GCC, and
reconfigure to use that annobin version if the separately built annobin
plugin was built by a different GCC version (and not the currently
installed one).

Thanks,
Florian

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