crosscompiler toolchain support for diffoscope?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 04:24:40PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote:
> I'm attempting to use diffoscope on a bunch of ppc64 binaries (firmware
> in fact) that are typically built with a cross compiler (typically one
> from buildroot).

Cool!

> unfortunately though, it seems diffoscope is hardcoded to use 'objdump'
> as command, and there's no easy way to pass through
> CROSS=powerpc64-linux-gnu- or similar in order for it to be able to
> disassemble ppc64 asm on my x86 laptop.
> 
> Any chance for being able to specify CROSS= or otherwise use a different toolchain?


This has been committed to diffoscope's git repository last week after a
similar request in a bug report:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=1de693d11d0d08d2127b40c6e7f3265f7ba9ab34

Does that solve your use case as well?

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