LG violates gpl? take 2

Ralph Corderoy ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Wed Mar 24 14:55:50 CET 2010


Hi,

> No. This time the size matches, but the content doesn't.
> 
> $ ls -l image_from_tv.vmlinuz vmlinuz.config-flash
> -rw-r--r-- 1 luca luca 4394120 2010-03-21 17:32 image_from_tv.vmlinuz
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 luca luca 4394120 2010-03-23 17:42 vmlinuz.config-flash*
> 
> $ cmp -b -l image_from_tv.vmlinuz vmlinuz.config-flash | wc --lines
> 2224535

If the two binaries are out of sync, then the number of lines from `cmp
-l' can be misleading.  Have you tried

    hex() { hexdump -ve '/1 "%x\n"' "$@"; }
    diff <(hex image_from_tv.vmlinuz) <(hex vmlinuz.config-flash) | less

and see on what scale those differences are?  Also, the location of a
difference may mean you can investigate more and see it's due to object
foo.o.

Cheers,
Ralph.





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