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8 <sect1 id="ch-system-libelf" role="wrap">
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12 <productname>libelf</productname>
13 <productnumber>&elfutils-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&elfutils-url;</address>
17 <title>Libelf from Elfutils-&elfutils-version;</title>
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-libelf">
20 <primary sortas="a-Libelf">Libelf</primary>
23 <sect2 role="package">
26 <para>Libelf is a library for handling ELF (Executable and Linkable Format)
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
34 <seg>&elfutils-ch6-sbu;</seg>
35 <seg>&elfutils-ch6-du;</seg>
41 <sect2 role="installation">
42 <title>Installation of Libelf</title>
44 <para>Libelf is part of elfutils-&elfutils-version; package. Use
45 the elfutils-&elfutils-version;.tar.bz2 as the source tarball.</para>
47 <para>Prepare Libelf for compilation:</para>
49 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
51 <para>Compile the package:</para>
53 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
55 <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
57 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
59 <para>Install only Libelf:</para>
61 <screen><userinput remap="install">make -C libelf install
62 install -vm644 config/libelf.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig</userinput></screen>
66 <sect2 id="contents-elfutils" role="content">
67 <title>Contents of Libelf</title>
70 <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>