Re: can we resolve that "systemtap requires elfutils 0.123+" configure error?

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>]

Hi -

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:50:19PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> [...]
> > I suppose so, if people are not offended by more Red Hat-isms.
> > Still, it should be part of general linux education that development
> > RPMs are needed when building against libraries, as opposed to
> > running against them.
> 
> but, IIRC, it's not a missing *development* RPM that's the problem --
> it's one of the libraries.  on my FC6 system:
> 
> $ rpm -qR systemtap
> [...not elfutils-*-devel...]
>   so, at least on FC, systemtap doesn't sppear to require a
> development package.

But that's completely normal.  A compiled application will require
only the core shared libraries to *run*.  But you were trying to
compile systemtap itself.  (Contrast the Requires: and the
BuildRequires: lines in the spec file.)

- FChE