Bug#201561: ITP: elfutils -- Tools to read from and write to ELF files
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:27:20PM +0100, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: * Package name: elfutils [...] * License : OSL 1.0 What's that? Shouldn't -legal have a look at it? -- G. Branden Robinson| There is no gravity in space. Debian GNU/Linux | Then how could astronauts walk [EMAIL PROTECTED] | around on the Moon? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Because they wore heavy boots. pgpgqAZL5J0pK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#201561: ITP: elfutils -- Tools to read from and write to ELF files
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-16 Severity: wishlist * Package name: elfutils Version : 0.84 Upstream Author : Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://people.redhat.com/drepper/ * License : OSL 1.0 Description : Tools to read from and write to ELF files 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), readline (the see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files). Also included are numerous helper libraries which implement DWARF, ELF, and machine-specific ELF handling. . Each binary will be prefixed with 'eu-' to disambiguate them from the GNU binutils' programs.
Bug#201561: ITP: elfutils -- Tools to read from and write to ELF files
On 16-Jul-03, 08:27 (CDT), Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description : Tools to read from and write to ELF files 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), readline (the see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files). Also included are numerous helper libraries which implement DWARF, ELF, and machine-specific ELF handling. And the point of this would be? I mean, I certainly don't object to you packaging this, but I've no idea why I would want to install it, given binutils. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net
Bug#201561: ITP: elfutils -- Tools to read from and write to ELF files
Quoting Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2003-07-16 17:46:25 BST): On 16-Jul-03, 08:27 (CDT), Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description : Tools to read from and write to ELF files 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), readline (the see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files). Also included are numerous helper libraries which implement DWARF, ELF, and machine-specific ELF handling. And the point of this would be? I mean, I certainly don't object to you packaging this, but I've no idea why I would want to install it, given binutils. Fair question! This package's strip program allows you to strip out debugging symbols, _putting them in a separate file_. This can be used by gdb at a later date for debugging a stripped binary as if it weren't stripped. No extra arguments to gdb need be provided either, as far as I can tell. Then I can provide a package foo with an adjunct, foo-debug or foo-dbg (which will depend on foo). It looks to be a neater solution than having two separate incompatible packages called foo and foo-dbg. I freely admit, I got the idea from Red Hat. They provide foo-debuginfo RPMs for virtually every package, I believe. -- VIKING EASTERLY 3 OR 4, OCCASIONALLY 5 IN SOUTH. FAIR. MAINLY GOOD
