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diff --git a/images/README-binfiles b/images/README-binfiles new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f99fc847 --- /dev/null +++ b/images/README-binfiles @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +The bin-* and lib-* files are used for testing the +Sys::Guestfs::Lib::file_architecture API. + +The bin-* files are generated from empty source files (ie. +"main(){}") on the respective architectures. + +The lib-* files are generated from a (really) empty source file called +lib.c which is linked into a library using gcc -shared on the +respective architectures. + +If you are concerned that these binary files "lack source" then you +can just remove them, but you may need to patch out tests in the perl/ +directory. |