For reasons I won't bother to get into here, I just fought with using
python 3 as the interpreter in gem5, and reran into what I think was this
issue:
https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-731
After some digging I found that it was this same issue, so I'm extra
motivated for it to be fixed now.
I finally got back around to this :).
Here's an updated issue and some WIP changes:
https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-752. I updated our code to work with
current libelf, which was pretty simple except for one change from 1998 :D.
There's two things missing:
1. I'm not sure how to tell scons
I see that we had a local version of libelf as far back as when we started
using scons in 2004, where we referred to it's SConscript in
m5/libelf/SConscript (not src/m5 or util/m5, just m5), although that
directory and all its history seems to have been dropped during one of the
times we switched v
I'm pretty sure it's been that way "forever", where forever is defined as
as far back as I can remember. Looking at the history, I see that Nate
replaced a GNU libelf with "autoconf nastiness" (I can imagine), and
replaced it with a freeBSD version in 2007, so it's been that way at least
as long as
