[hardening-discuss] Bug#664862: hardening-wrapper: hardening-check reports static libraries as "unknown-elf"

[Niels Thykier]

Package: hardening-wrapper
Version: 1.36
Severity: minor

Hi,

I believe I briefly mentioned this to Kees on IRC, but here is a bug
for it as well.  :)

Using hardening-check on a static library causes it to report that the
file is not an "ELF" file.  Technically it is of course correct, but I
feel that static libraries is a special case that hardening-check
should handle.

readelf produces "per-object file" dumps of static libraries, so
hardening-check /appears/ to (otherwise) work fine with static
libraries.

~Niels