[diffoscope] Need a way to select objdump for different architectures

Chris Lamb chris at reproducible-builds.org
Wed Jul 9 17:36:52 UTC 2025


Hi Martin,

>>  diffoscope
>>    --tool-prefix-binutils=/home/builds/ab/HEAD/atari/20250703130037Z-tools/bin/m68k--netbsdelf-
>>    file1
>>    file2
>> 
>> NB. the trailing "-" on the --tool-prefix line is deliberate.
>
> Perfect - not sure how I overlooked that in the usage output.

No problem, it's a little-used feature after all, and the name
"tool-prefix-binutils" won't jump out to you when looking at the
--help output.

I don't think I ever considered that users would pass a full,
absolute path too, so I'm glad that works.


Best wishes,

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