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Bug#368248: ITP: elfutils



Hello,

FYI systemtap package allready includes elfutils package and it also
contains some patches for it (see 04-elfutils-condsign and
05-elfutils-bswap_32 - this one was added today), so you can include it
in your package (those patches fix FTBFS on most architectures).

It would be good if elfutils package provide libraries and headers so
systemtap can be build using them.

BTW the reason why I included elfutils into systemtap package is
unstable ABI for libdw (see libdw/libdw.map, it includes symbols only
for latest version). I really do not see how it can be fixed. Also
elfutils and systemtap are in active development and nearly each new
snapshot of systemtap needs latest version of elfutils, so I expect a
really interesting challenge to push on of those packages to testing in
the future :/.

20 травня 2006 о 22:12 +0200 Kurt Roeckx написав(-ла):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name : elfutils
> * Version : 0.120
> * Upstream Author : redhat (Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>)
> * URL :ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/systemtap/elfutils/
> * License : GPL
> Description : A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled
> objects.
> Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including ld (a linker),
> nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the
> section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding
> symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint
> (to check for well-formed ELF files).  Also included are numerous
> helper libraries which implement DWARF, ELF, and machine-specific ELF
> handling.
> 
> 
> >>From the changelog:
> - The license is now GPL for most files.  The libelf, libebl, libdw,and
> libdwfl libraries have additional exceptions.  Add reference toOIN.
> 
> (This allow to link with any open source license approved by OSI)
> 
> It contains other libraries which have something simular in Debian
> already.
> 
> libelf (with binary package libelfg0) seems to do exactly the same, so
> maybe we should look at only providing one of them.  I have no idea why
> it has the g in it's name though.
> 
> libdw seems to be simular to libdwarf, but differ alot.
> 
> 
> 
> Kurt
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov

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