Thomas Trepl wrote:
Am Samstag, den 27.01.2018, 21:33 +0000 schrieb Ken Moffat:
Now that libelf from elfutils is in the development version of LFS, I
think we no-longer need elfutils in BLFS ? Originally it was added
for Mesa and I see that we recommend it for the radeonsi driver
there. I say "I think" because my current build (with gcc-7.3.0)
seems to have successfully built the mesa radeonsi lib, but that
machine uses plain old radeon so I can't use the radeonsi stuff.
Other users are glib2 (it found it) and systemd (in LFS that comes
after libelf).
As with python3, libffi, etc this may cause transitional pain for
people building on less-current versions of LFS (I think libelf was
added in the past month), so I propose that IF we do this, we do it
after the freeze for 8.2 and explain it in the ChangeLog.
Unless somebody has a reason why full elfutils should remain in
BLFS, of course. ...
ĸen
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Just my 2ct: The current instructions to build libelf are very basic
and limited to build only the lib. At least a comment about the tools
should be added as well as note about the --program-prefix when one is
going to install the full package. Something like
"If you require the full set of elfutils, execute as root
$ make install
otherwise it's sufficient to install only the library by executing
$ make -C libelf install
$ install -vm644 config/libelf.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig"
The --program-prefix="eu-" could be added to the configure command
anyhow and would prepare the build process to be fine in case one will
go to build the whole stuff. If only installing the lib, it does not
harm at all.
That's a good idea. As of right now, building only libelf in LFS is
somewhat experimental. We are considering dropping elfutils from BLFS,
but need to check each program that currently references elfutils to see
it only libelf is sufficient. I was waiting for the upcoming package
freeze before 8.2 to do that.
If we end up dropping elfutils, then we will definitely want to add a
comment like you suggest.
-- Bruce
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