Compiling SystemTap with elfutils-0.165 fails

[Mark Wielaard]

On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 21:39 +0200, Torsten Polle wrote:
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/polle/work/repository/systemtap-i686-linux-gnu'
>   CXX      stap-main.o
> In file included from include-elfutils/gelf.h:32:0,
>                  from include-elfutils/elfutils/libdw.h:32,
>                  from ../systemtap/elaborate.h:25,
>                  from ../systemtap/main.cxx:14:
> include-elfutils/libelf.h:280:8: error: ‘Elf32_Chdr’ does not name a type
> include-elfutils/libelf.h:281:8: error: ‘Elf64_Chdr’ does not name a type
> 
> It seems that include-elfutils/libelf.h tries to pull in elf.h but fails to include the one from elfutils-0.165. Instead my copy in /usr/include is included, which stems from an older version of elfutils. I can fix the problem by copying work/repository/elfutils-0.165/libelf/elf.h to work/repository/systemtap-i686-linux-gnu/include-elfutils.

That probably works, but better to use this patch:
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/elfutils.git/commit/?id=344ca0775da729e1bfdd61bb88ba4c64befece07

That will also be in elfutils 0.166 (probably to be released tomorrow).
Then any old glibc version of elf.h is supported.

Cheers,

Mark