a0f8774a70
Introspecting the dynamic headers is low-level and full of implementation
details.
It seems that gnome-shell was assuming the address of the string table is
given by taking the DT_STRTAB dynamic symbol table's value (d_un.d_val)
and casting it to an absolute pointer. However, in some environments
(apparently including Debian mips64el) the DT_STRTAB dynamic symbol
table's d_un.d_val can be merely an offset relative to the base address
of the executable in memory. The base address would have to be parsed from
a different ELF header, which as far as I know is not part of _DYNAMIC.
Rather than trying to look up the Shell executable's base address using
dlinfo() or similar, during unit testing it seems easier to pass in the
uninstalled library search path in the environment, along with other
uninstalled paths that we are going to need anyway.
The reason given for not using GI_TYPELIB_PATH in commit
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GNOME Shell
GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and easy to use experience.
For more information about GNOME Shell, including instructions on how to build GNOME Shell from source and how to get involved with the project, see the project wiki.
Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system. Please refer to the Schedule wiki page to see the supported versions.
Contributing
To contribute, open merge requests at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell.
Commit messages should follow the GNOME commit message
guidelines. If a merge request
fixes an existing issue, it is good practice to append the full issue URL
to each commit message. Try to always prefix commit subjects with a relevant
topic, such as panel: or status/network:, and it's always better to write
too much in the commit message body than too little.
Default branch
The default development branch is main. If you still have a local
checkout under the old name, use:
git checkout master
git branch -m master main
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/main
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main
License
GNOME Shell is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.