[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] elfutils: Add a --{enable, disable}-backends option
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Apr 1 19:43:23 UTC 2015
Dear Jan Heylen,
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 20:12:05 +0200, Jan Heylen wrote:
> diff --git a/package/elfutils/0007-backends-configurable.patch b/package/elfutils/0007-backends-configurable.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b93e2da
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/elfutils/0007-backends-configurable.patch
Patches should have a description and a Signed-off-by line.
Also, could you submit this patch upstream? I'd like to see if upstream
is willing to accept such a patch, since it is more or less a "feature"
patch, and we prefer to not have to carry such patches forever.
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS_BACKENDS
> + bool "Build and install backend shared libraries"
> + default y
> + help
> + This option tells elfutils to not only install the libelf
> + libraries, but also the libebl backend shared libraries
> + with architecture specific code to read elf files. If you
> + intend to use libelf/libebl at-runtime, say 'y' here.
> + If you only need to link against libelf at-compile-time,
> + but not really using it, you can leave the architecture
> + specific backends uninstalled. Loading of the backend library
> + by libebl will fail in that case.
This explanation seems weird: why would you link against libelf and not
use it?
Thanks,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
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