Ed, this is from the Ubuntu install instructions for a project where I am using elftoolchain. Per our discussion, if you want people using Linux to use elftoolchain, you might want to reduce the number of workarounds in this list.
Daniel == Installing ELF Tool Chain We depend on the http://sourceforge.net/projects/elftoolchain/[ELF Tool Chain] project. The latest public release of elftoolchain, elftoolchain-0.6.1, has a bug in that it does not process DWARF4 correctly; get it as follows: $ svn checkout -r 3164 svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/elftoolchain/code/trunk elftoolchain-code Gcc switched to DWARF4 at some point before gcc 4.9.2 and so you need at least that version of elftoolchain to parse its DWARF output; it is likely that any revision past that one of 2015-02-18 17:20:12 -0800 will work. The elftoolchain-0.6.1/INSTALL will tell you what dependencies to install: $ sudo apt-get install bison flex gcc libarchive-dev m4 pmake \ libexpat1-dev python-yaml sharutils However you will also need this, which is not documented: $ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev The build process will stop and tell you to do this if you do not do it initially: Please download the distribution from: http://tetworks.opengroup.org/downloads/38/software/Sources/3.8/tet3.8-src.\ tar.gz and unpack it into directory "../../test/tet/tet3.8". The tet3.8-src.tar.gz file unpacks into a dir named tet3.8 and the message above means to put it into elftoolchain-0.6.1/test/tet/. There does not seem to be a configure step. Note that when building on Linux, the instructions are wrong: just using pmake will not work, you must invoke it as follows: $ NOGCCERROR=1 pmake You must install elftoolchain in order to build against it; it is not enough to just use +-I+ and +-L+ flags as the internal headers within elftoolchain will not find each other. $ sudo pmake install The INSTALL file provides a way to install elftoolchain in a place other than the default, but I have not tried it. elftoolchain-0.6.1 has a bug where the install target does not install the header files into /usr/include, so I had to do it myself; I don't know if this is required for the version above, but doing it did not seem to hurt, so you might as well. $ cd elftoolchain-0.6.1/ $ sudo cp ./libelf/libelf.h ./libelf/gelf.h ./common/elfdefinitions.h ./libelftc/libelftc.h ./libdwarf/libdwarf.h ./libdwarf/dwarf.h /usr/include/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Elftoolchain-developers mailing list Elftoolchain-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/elftoolchain-developers
