### Building a hotfix binary and container

To add a hotfix tag to the binary version and embed the relevant `commit-id` following build helpers are available

#### Builds the hotfix binary and uploads to https;//dl.min.io

```
λ CRED_DIR=/media/builder/minio make hotfix-push
```

If your PR includes any changes to the Gradle Public API, it will cause the binary compatibility check to fail.
The binary compatibility check runs as a part of the broader sanity check.
The latter runs on every PR and is a prerequisite for merging.

If you run the sanity check locally with the `./gradlew sanityCheck`, you can see the binary compatibility error in the output.
It looks like the following:

```

keeping the package name the same: `okhttp3`!

There are three kinds of compatibility we’re tracking:

 * **Binary compatibility** is the ability to compile a program against OkHttp 3.x, and then to run
   it against OkHttp 4.x. We’re using the excellent [japicmp][japicmp] library via its
   [Gradle plugin][japicmp_gradle] to enforce binary compatibility.

 * **Java source compatibility** is the ability to upgrade Java uses of OkHttp 3.x to 4.x without

Metadata is stored in `xl.meta` files for erasure coded objects. Each disk in the set containing the object has this file. The file format is a binary format and therefore requires tools to view values.

### Installing xl-meta

To install, [Go](https://golang.org/dl/) must be installed. Once installed, execute this to install the binary:

```bash
go install github.com/minio/minio/docs/debugging/xl-meta@latest
```

### Using xl-meta

| xlMetaV2  | msgp object | All versions as single messagepack object
| [EOF] | |

### v1.1+

Version 1.1 added inline data, which will be placed after the metadata.

Therefore, the metadata is wrapped as a binary array for easy skipping.

| Entry          | Encoding       | Content
| ---------------|----------------|----------------------------------------
| xlHeader       | [4]byte        | `'X', 'L', '2', ' '`

MINIO_CONFIG_DIR="$WORK_DIR/.minio"
MINIO=("$PWD/minio" --config-dir "$MINIO_CONFIG_DIR" server)

if [ ! -x "$PWD/minio" ]; then
	echo "minio executable binary not found in current directory"
	exit 1
fi

if [ ! -x "$PWD/minio" ]; then
	echo "minio executable binary not found in current directory"
	exit 1
fi

function start_minio_4drive() {
	start_port=$1

	export MINIO_ROOT_USER=minio

# Create targets for TARGET_OUT_LINUX/binary
# There are two use cases here:
# * Building all docker images (generally in CI). In this case we want to build everything at once, so they share work
# * Building a single docker image (generally during dev). In this case we just want to build the single binary alone
BUILD_ALL ?= true
define build-linux

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