[Ltrace-devel] ltrace and libelf

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 11/01/2010 02:05 PM, Petr Machata wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working with Zach's github tree.  There, configure requires
> libelf.pc to be installed.
> 
> I don't think that's correct, there's at least one other libelf
> available in elfutils, which has incompatible versioning and doesn't
> ship the .pc file.  It's available on Red Hat-line of linuxes: Fedora,
> RHEL, Centos, where, as far as I can tell, libelf isn't in the
> repositories.
> 
> I think autoconf should be rewritten to ask for libelf the traditional
> way, that is to ask for libelf functions that we use.  I'd like to know
> your opinion before I start throwing patches around.

Sounds like a plan. I've added a patch to my repo that uses the
traditional way, if pkg-config fails. Testes on ubuntu with feroa's
libelfutils.

cheers, Marc

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The following changes since commit 14fb133518a1ad91e58852c960370d32ad8f36e7:

  Add -w/--where to show backtraces of traced functions. (2010-10-31 14:26:59 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:
  git://git.pengutronix.de/git/mkl/ltrace.git fix/libelf-wo-pc

Marc Kleine-Budde (2):
      configure: use AS_HELP_STRING to pretty print help text
      configure: add pkg-config-less libelf detection

 configure.ac |   18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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