[charcircuit]

Just link to the code instead of executing it as a separate binary

[notaplumber1]

I'm pretty sure parsing ELF binaries is out of scope for kdump(1), sorry, but I don't think that's going to happen.

It's not that difficult to run addr2line yourself with the information provided, and that's really for the best.

[charcircuit]

You are arguing for a worse UX because of an arbitrary reason. Just link against the code in addr2line. Providing a good UX should always be in scope for a project.

[sigjuice]

How does one "just link against the code in addr2line" ?

[charcircuit]

You rename them main symbol to something else then you just call it like any other library.

[sigjuice]

addr2line is unlikely to be a trivial self-contained program without dependencies.

[charcircuit]

Then link to those dependencies.

[tedunangst]

Why would openbsd want to taint kdump with GPL code?

[yakubin]

LLVM provides llvm-addr2line and llvm-symbolizer. Of course I understand not wanting to link with LLVM code, even when the licence is ok. :)

[charcircuit]

Then find or write an alternative. Asking people to run a command to see the file and line number is a joke.