Re: about libelf by example

[Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 20:41 -0500, Fennec Cleric wrote:
> We are trying to make an ELF file (using Mr. Koshy's Libelf By Example code)
> on Fedora 13. However, after installing the headers and libelf, we are still
> having some issues. For one, our computer doesn't seem to find where this
> is:
> 
> elf_setshstrndx(e, elf_ndxscn(scn));
> 
> If we take this line out (to see if it was the only missing item in our
> code), compile it and run it, we get that our code is unable to make an
> executable ELF file, but it says that there are no error messages. Has
> anyone had this issue in the past? Does anyone have any ideas on where we
> can get this method or how to fix this?

I believe this is a freebsd libelf extension that isn't in any other
libelf implementation. Depending on the elf class you would just set
Elf32/64_Ehdr->e_shstrndx in other implementations (like elfutils
libelf).

Cheers,

Mark