-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-1005 2009-01-27 00:36:52 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : elfutils Product : Fedora 10 Version : 0.139 Release : 1.fc10 URL : https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/ Summary : A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects Description : Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including ld (a linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes various minor bugs in elfutils libraries and tools. It also adds support for automatic gzip or bzip2 decompression of ELF files to libdwfl and the tools that use it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jan 23 2009 Roland McGrath <rol...@redhat.com> - 0.139-1 - Update to 0.139 - libcpu: Add Intel SSE4 disassembler support - readelf: Implement call frame information and exception handling dumping. Add -e option. Enable it implicitly for -a. - elflint: Check PT_GNU_EH_FRAME program header entry. - libdwfl: Support automatic gzip/bzip2 decompression of ELF files. (#472136) * Thu Jan 1 2009 Roland McGrath <rol...@redhat.com> - 0.138-2 - Fix libelf regression. * Wed Dec 31 2008 Roland McGrath <rol...@redhat.com> - 0.138-1 - Update to 0.138 - Install <elfutils/version.h> header file for applications to use in source version compatibility checks. - libebl: backend fixes for i386 TLS relocs; backend support for NT_386_IOPERM - libcpu: disassembler fixes (#469739) - libdwfl: bug fixes (#465878) - libelf: bug fixes - eu-nm: bug fixes for handling corrupt input files (#476136) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #465878 - crash on processing empty archive https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465878 [ 2 ] Bug #469739 - eu-objdump: Assertion failed while disassembling libavcodec.so.52 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469739 [ 3 ] Bug #476136 - Various SEGVs and ABRTs on binutils testcases https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476136 [ 4 ] Bug #472136 - RFE: handle compressed kernel object files for systemtap-style offline searches https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472136 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update elfutils' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
