Dyninst folks,

Below see the advice from Mark Wielaard (elfutils lead) about dyninst and ARM 
on RHEL6.

--
John Mellor-Crummey

(sent from my phone)

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com>
> Date: December 29, 2018 at 10:51:20 AM CST
> To: John Mellor-Crummey <joh...@rice.edu>
> Cc: wood...@redhat.com, "Mark W. Krentel" <kren...@rice.edu>
> Subject: Re: Issue with elfutils and elf.h
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On Fri, 2018-12-28 at 21:56 -0600, John Mellor-Crummey wrote:
>> See the email thread that discusses problems because elfutils doesn’t
>> install elf.h.
> 
> elfutils explicitly doesn't install elf.h because it is a simple copy
> from glibc and we don't want to conflict with it. The issue seems to be
> that the glibc elf.h copy on RHEL6 doesn't support aarch64. Normally
> this wouldn't be an issue since none of the aarch64 related constants
> from elf.h are needed to use libelf.h or elfutils/libdw.h.
> 
> I am not sure what the correct approach is here. RHEL6 simply doesn't
> support aarch64. So maybe to simplest approach is to not build aarch64
> related code on targets like rhel6 which doesn't have a new enough
> glibc?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
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