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Last change on this file since f406612 was f406612, checked in by Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>, 2 years ago

libelf: add a x86 specific test failure

It's caused by a minor GAS issue, which should be fixed in
binutils-2.40.

See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29450 and
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29451.

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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
8<sect1 id="ch-system-libelf" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="libelf.html"?>
10
11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>libelf</productname>
13 <productnumber>&elfutils-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&elfutils-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>Libelf from Elfutils-&elfutils-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-libelf">
20 <primary sortas="a-Libelf">Libelf</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
26 <para>Libelf is a library for handling ELF (Executable and Linkable Format)
27 files.</para>
28
29 <segmentedlist>
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
32
33 <seglistitem>
34 <seg>&elfutils-fin-sbu;</seg>
35 <seg>&elfutils-fin-du;</seg>
36 </seglistitem>
37 </segmentedlist>
38
39 </sect2>
40
41 <sect2 role="installation">
42 <title>Installation of Libelf</title>
43
44 <para>Libelf is part of elfutils-&elfutils-version; package. Use
45 the elfutils-&elfutils-version;.tar.bz2 as the source tarball.</para>
46
47 <para>Prepare Libelf for compilation:</para>
48
49 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
50 --disable-debuginfod \
51 --enable-libdebuginfod=dummy</userinput></screen>
52
53 <para>Compile the package:</para>
54
55<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
56
57 <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
58
59<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
60
61 <para>One test named <filename>run-low_high_pc.sh</filename> is known to
62 fail on 32-bit x86 system.</para>
63
64 <para>Install only Libelf:</para>
65
66<screen><userinput remap="install">make -C libelf install
67install -vm644 config/libelf.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig
68rm /usr/lib/libelf.a</userinput></screen>
69
70 </sect2>
71
72 <sect2 id="contents-elfutils" role="content">
73 <title>Contents of Libelf</title>
74
75 <segmentedlist>
76 <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
77 <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
78
79 <seglistitem>
80 <seg>
81 libelf.so (symlink) and libelf-&elfutils-version;.so
82 </seg>
83 <seg>
84 /usr/include/elfutils
85 </seg>
86 </seglistitem>
87
88 </segmentedlist>
89
90 <variablelist>
91 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
92 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
93 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
94
95 <varlistentry id="libelf">
96 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libelf</filename></term>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>Contains API functions to handle ELF object files</para>
99 <indexterm zone="ch-system-libelf libelf">
100 <primary sortas="c-libelf">libelf</primary>
101 </indexterm>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 </variablelist>
106
107 </sect2>
108
109</sect1>
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