From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libelf package
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:47:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106434326809373@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106401166405460@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On 22 Sep 2003 19:32:01 -0700, Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com> said:
Jim> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:52, David Mosberger wrote:
>> For what it's worth, Debian has a libelf package. Not that this helps
>> with United Linux...
Jim> I looked at the Debian package, it is the wrong one. The SuSE package
Jim> is probably the same wrong one.
For some definition of "wrong". ;-)
Jim> There is a libelf project that Ulrich Drepper is working on, which he
Jim> hopes will replace the bfd library in binutils some day. Quite a few
Jim> people have heard of this by now.
Yes, I've heard of it many times before, though not as "libelf".
Jim> There is also a libelf project that was written by Michael Riepe, Uni
Jim> Hannover. I'd never heard of this one before today, and I doubt many
Jim> others have either.
AFAIK, it's a fairly standard interface. I certainly have known about
it for years and I suspect many others do, too.
Jim> Ulrich's project is very much a Red Hat project.
Yes.
Jim> The only way to get it that I know of it to get an RPM from Red
Jim> Hat. This will have to change if he wants to replace bfd, but
Jim> that is the way it is for now. This is in the elfutils
Jim> package, even though everyone calls it libelf, probably to try
Jim> to avoid confusion with the other libelf project.
I looked at the source code of elfutils and it seems to me that the
libelf.h/libelf.so included there is API-compatible with the libelf by
Michael Riepe (which is good, I suppose...).
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-19 22:47 libelf package Umut Aymakoglu
2003-09-22 20:09 ` Jim Wilson
2003-09-22 20:52 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 0:41 ` Wichmann, Mats D
2003-09-23 2:32 ` Jim Wilson
2003-09-23 16:40 ` Al Stone
2003-09-23 18:47 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2003-09-23 20:15 ` Alex Tsariounov
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