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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY elfutils-download-http
8 "https://fedorahosted.org/releases/e/l/elfutils/&elfutils-version;/elfutils-&elfutils-version;.tar.bz2">
9 <!ENTITY elfutils-download-ftp " ">
10 <!ENTITY elfutils-md5sum "2e4536c1c48034f188a80789a59114d8">
11 <!ENTITY elfutils-size "5.8 MB">
12 <!ENTITY elfutils-buildsize "103 MB (with tests)">
13 <!ENTITY elfutils-time "0.8 SBU (with tests)">
14]>
15
16<sect1 id="elfutils" xreflabel="elfutils-&elfutils-version;">
17 <?dbhtml filename="elfutils.html"?>
18
19 <sect1info>
20 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
21 <date>$Date$</date>
22 </sect1info>
23
24 <title>elfutils-&elfutils-version;</title>
25
26 <indexterm zone="elfutils">
27 <primary sortas="a-elfutils">elfutils</primary>
28 </indexterm>
29
30 <sect2 role="package">
31 <title>Introduction to elfutils</title>
32
33 <para>
34 The <application>elfutils</application> package contains a set of
35 utilities and libraries for handling ELF (Executable and Linkable Format)
36 files.
37 </para>
38
39 &lfs78_checked;
40
41 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
42 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
43 <listitem>
44 <para>
45 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&elfutils-download-http;"/>
46 </para>
47 </listitem>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>
50 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&elfutils-download-ftp;"/>
51 </para>
52 </listitem>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>
55 Download MD5 sum: &elfutils-md5sum;
56 </para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>
60 Download size: &elfutils-size;
61 </para>
62 </listitem>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>
65 Estimated disk space required: &elfutils-buildsize;
66 </para>
67 </listitem>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>
70 Estimated build time: &elfutils-time;
71 </para>
72 </listitem>
73 </itemizedlist>
74
75 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">elfutils Dependencies</bridgehead>
76
77 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
78 <para role="optional">
79 <xref linkend="valgrind"/>
80 </para>
81
82 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
83 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/elfutils"/>
84 </para>
85 </sect2>
86
87 <sect2 role="installation">
88 <title>Installation of elfutils</title>
89
90 <para>
91 Install <application>elfutils</application> by running the following
92 commands:
93 </para>
94
95<!-- don't disable static libs, disable-static switch doesn't work anyways -->
96<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --program-prefix="eu-" &amp;&amp;
97make</userinput></screen>
98<!--
99 <para>
100 If you wish to run the test suite, first fix it to skip two failing tests:
101 </para>
102
103<screen><userinput>sed -i '/srcdir/ iexit 77\n' \
104 tests/run-backtrace-native.sh \
105 tests/run-backtrace-native-core.sh</userinput></screen>-->
106
107 <para>
108 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
109 </para>
110
111 <para>
112 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
113 </para>
114
115<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
116
117 </sect2>
118
119 <sect2 role="commands">
120 <title>Command Explanations</title>
121
122 <para>
123 <parameter>--program-prefix="eu-"</parameter>: This switch renames
124 installed programs to avoid conflict with
125 <application>Binutils</application> programs installed in LFS.
126 </para>
127
128 <para>
129 <option>--enable-valgrind</option>: Run all tests under valgrind.
130 </para>
131
132 </sect2>
133
134 <sect2 role="content">
135 <title>Contents</title>
136
137 <segmentedlist>
138 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
139 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
140 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
141
142 <seglistitem>
143 <seg>
144 eu-addr2line, eu-ar, eu-elfcmp, eu-elflint, eu-findtextrel, eu-ld,
145 eu-make-debug-archive, eu-nm, eu-objdump, eu-ranlib, eu-readelf,
146 eu-size, eu-stack, eu-strings, eu-strip, and eu-unstrip
147 </seg>
148 <seg>
149 libasm.{a,so}, libdw.{a,so}, libebl.a, libelf.{a,so}, and
150 some for different architectures under /usr/lib/elfutils
151 </seg>
152 <seg>
153 /usr/include/elfutils and
154 /usr/lib/elfutils
155 </seg>
156 </seglistitem>
157 </segmentedlist>
158
159 <variablelist>
160 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
161 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
162 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
163
164 <varlistentry id="eu-addr2line">
165 <term><command>eu-addr2line</command></term>
166 <listitem>
167 <para>
168 convert addresses into file names and line numbers.
169 </para>
170 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-addr2line">
171 <primary sortas="b-eu-addr2line">eu-addr2line</primary>
172 </indexterm>
173 </listitem>
174 </varlistentry>
175
176 <varlistentry id="eu-ar">
177 <term><command>eu-ar</command></term>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>
180 create, modify, and extract from archives.
181 </para>
182 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-ar">
183 <primary sortas="b-eu-ar">eu-ar</primary>
184 </indexterm>
185 </listitem>
186 </varlistentry>
187
188 <varlistentry id="eu-elfcmp">
189 <term><command>eu-elfcmp</command></term>
190 <listitem>
191 <para>
192 compare relevant parts of two ELF files for equality.
193 </para>
194 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-elfcmp">
195 <primary sortas="b-eu-elfcmp">eu-elfcmp</primary>
196 </indexterm>
197 </listitem>
198 </varlistentry>
199
200 <varlistentry id="eu-elflint">
201 <term><command>eu-elflint</command></term>
202 <listitem>
203 <para>
204 pedantic checking of ELF files compliance with gABI/psABI spec.
205 </para>
206 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-elflint">
207 <primary sortas="b-eu-elflint">eu-elflint</primary>
208 </indexterm>
209 </listitem>
210 </varlistentry>
211
212 <varlistentry id="eu-findtextrel">
213 <term><command>eu-findtextrel</command></term>
214 <listitem>
215 <para>
216 locate source of text relocations in FILEs (a.out by default).
217 </para>
218 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-findtextrel">
219 <primary sortas="b-eu-findtextrel">eu-findtextrel</primary>
220 </indexterm>
221 </listitem>
222 </varlistentry>
223
224 <varlistentry id="eu-ld">
225 <term><command>eu-ld</command></term>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>
228 combine object and archive files.
229 </para>
230 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-ld">
231 <primary sortas="b-eu-ld">eu-ld</primary>
232 </indexterm>
233 </listitem>
234 </varlistentry>
235
236 <varlistentry id="eu-nm">
237 <term><command>eu-nm</command></term>
238 <listitem>
239 <para>
240 list symbols from FILEs (a.out by default).
241 </para>
242 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-nm">
243 <primary sortas="b-eu-nm">eu-nm</primary>
244 </indexterm>
245 </listitem>
246 </varlistentry>
247
248 <varlistentry id="eu-objdump">
249 <term><command>eu-objdump</command></term>
250 <listitem>
251 <para>
252 show information from FILEs (a.out by default).
253 </para>
254 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-objdump">
255 <primary sortas="b-eu-objdump">eu-objdump</primary>
256 </indexterm>
257 </listitem>
258 </varlistentry>
259
260 <varlistentry id="eu-ranlib">
261 <term><command>eu-ranlib</command></term>
262 <listitem>
263 <para>
264 generate an index to speed access to archives.
265 </para>
266 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-ranlib">
267 <primary sortas="b-eu-ranlib">eu-ranlib</primary>
268 </indexterm>
269 </listitem>
270 </varlistentry>
271
272 <varlistentry id="eu-readelf">
273 <term><command>eu-readelf</command></term>
274 <listitem>
275 <para>
276 print information from ELF file in human-readable form.
277 </para>
278 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-readelf">
279 <primary sortas="b-eu-readelf">eu-readelf</primary>
280 </indexterm>
281 </listitem>
282 </varlistentry>
283
284 <varlistentry id="eu-size">
285 <term><command>eu-size</command></term>
286 <listitem>
287 <para>
288 list section sizes of FILEs (a.out by default).
289 </para>
290 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-size">
291 <primary sortas="b-eu-size">eu-size</primary>
292 </indexterm>
293 </listitem>
294 </varlistentry>
295
296 <varlistentry id="eu-stack">
297 <term><command>eu-stack</command></term>
298 <listitem>
299 <para>
300 print a stack for each thread in a process or core file.
301 </para>
302 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-stack">
303 <primary sortas="b-eu-stack">eu-stack</primary>
304 </indexterm>
305 </listitem>
306 </varlistentry>
307
308 <varlistentry id="eu-strings">
309 <term><command>eu-strings</command></term>
310 <listitem>
311 <para>
312 print the strings of printable characters in files.
313 </para>
314 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-strings">
315 <primary sortas="b-eu-strings">eu-strings</primary>
316 </indexterm>
317 </listitem>
318 </varlistentry>
319
320 <varlistentry id="eu-strip">
321 <term><command>eu-strip</command></term>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>
324 discard symbols from object files.
325 </para>
326 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-strip">
327 <primary sortas="b-eu-strip">eu-strip</primary>
328 </indexterm>
329 </listitem>
330 </varlistentry>
331
332 <varlistentry id="eu-unstrip">
333 <term><command>eu-unstrip</command></term>
334 <listitem>
335 <para>
336 combine stripped files with separate symbols and debug information.
337 </para>
338 <indexterm zone="elfutils eu-unstrip">
339 <primary sortas="b-eu-unstrip">eu-unstrip</primary>
340 </indexterm>
341 </listitem>
342 </varlistentry>
343
344 </variablelist>
345
346 </sect2>
347
348</sect1>
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