[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] Use only elfutils package to provide the libelf library

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Thu Aug 28 10:02:37 UTC 2014


On 28/08/2014 11:47, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The libelf is currently provided by 2 packages libelf and
> elfutils. The first package provides an old version of the libelf
> which is no more compatible with a recent version of ltrace. Having
> both libraries could lead to the link on the wrong one during the
> build. It is what happened for ltrace.
> 
> To avoid this kind of issue, this patch set switch the dependecy from
> libelf to elfutils and finally removed the elfutils package.

I meant "removed the libelf package" of course!

> 
> I built and fully tested ltrace on ARM.
> I built and just ran avrdude on ARM.
> I didn't build kexec-lite.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gregory
> 
> Gregory CLEMENT (4):
>   ltrace: Removes the libelf dependency
>   avrdude: Depend on elfutils instead of libelf to get the libel library
>   kexec-lite: Depends on elfutils instead of libelf to get the libelf
>     library
>   libelf: Removes the package
> 
>  package/Config.in                               |     1 -
>  package/avrdude/Config.in                       |     2 +-
>  package/avrdude/avrdude.mk                      |     2 +-
>  package/kexec-lite/Config.in                    |     2 +-
>  package/kexec-lite/kexec-lite.mk                |     2 +-
>  package/libelf/Config.in                        |     7 -
>  package/libelf/libelf-0.8.10-Elf64-fixups.patch | 12361 ----------------------
>  package/libelf/libelf.mk                        |    23 -
>  package/ltrace/Config.in                        |     1 -
>  package/ltrace/ltrace.mk                        |     2 +-
>  10 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 12398 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 package/libelf/Config.in
>  delete mode 100644 package/libelf/libelf-0.8.10-Elf64-fixups.patch
>  delete mode 100644 package/libelf/libelf.mk
> 


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Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
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