libelf from binutils ?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Mon Feb 21 20:16:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:44:23AM -0700, Kristis Makris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm interested in reusing parts of the sources of some binutils
> (particularly objdump). Given that libbfd is available directly from the
> binutils source, it's interesting that a corresponding libelf is
> missing. Are there any plans for packaging such a library, or should one
> go the route of doing vendor imports of the elf includes etc from
> binutils and tracking updates to those ?
> 
> There seems to be a separate libelf out there
> (http://packages.debian.org/testing/libdevel/libelfg0-dev) that is not
> coming from binutils sources.

There is no "libelf" in binutils.  All the ELF handling is inside
libbfd.  You can import the include/elf/ headers separately if you need
them.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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