On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:13:28PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> Thanks for the Debian builds of elfutils-0.165. Sorry for the breakage,
> wrt old glibc elf.h system header. But happy to see the simple fix seems
> to work.
> 
> I looked at the latest build logs:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=elfutils
> 
> For the hppa failure we need some hppa hacker to explain whether or not
> this is a real issue or not:
> 
> elflint /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/tests/elfstrmerge
> section [24] '.plt' is both executable and writable
> FAIL run-strip-strmerge.sh (exit status: 1)
> 
> Normaly elflint is correct, this would be a bad thing.

I think that has come up before in the past.

> For the kFreeBSD variants you could start with the second patch to
> elflint to at least recognize ELFOSABI_FREEBSD. Although I suspect there
> might be more issues. But maybe we are lucky and it really is just like
> normal GNU/Linux ELF files since you are using the normal GNU toolchain.

It has always worked without problems.

> If you could try the attached patches on a new Debian build that would
> be appreciated.

I'll try it tomorrow or in the weekend.


Kurt